At the start of Romeo & Juliet, we are introduced first to servants of the two feuding houses as they walk down the street of Verona, where the scene is set. ... Mercutio also uses a double entendre for this quote, meaning also that if Romeo is to have sex with the woman that he loves, then he will sink into her and burden her body. ... These words send Tybalt into a rage because he doesn't understand why Romeo is refusing his challenge since no one else knows that Romeo has just married Juliet, Tybalt's cousin. ... His words function as a kind of death knell, predicting the fu...

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In Baz Luhrman's production of Romeo and Juliet many filming style techniques have been used. ... This is a very important factor. ... Pictures and quotes, that have modernised and turned into newspaper headlines, flash across the screen. ... Sound effects are important because they range from a car revving to a gunshot. ... Franco Zefferelli's production of Romeo and Juliet is both realistic and traditional. ...

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Comparison of film to playwright in Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, was written in a time period that differs greatly from today. ... Due to the growing mental gap between the youth of today and the Shakespearean dialect, director Baz Luhrmann creates the modern day film version of Romeo and Juliet. ... The textual version of Romeo and Juliet is altered to give a new understanding to the modern world via the film version; mainly in the opening scene through use of modern scenery, language, and armory. ... For an example of slang that Shakespeare uses in the o...

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What he does not understand fully is that the people of the World State have been conditioned from birth to hate all things important in Shakespeare's works; emotion, family, love and death. ... John used other quotes of Shakespeare through the novel in response to all highly emotional situations, slowly introducing the reader back into the intensity and beauty of classical language after being deprived of it through the duration of the book. John, in response to Lenina, calls upon memories of Romeo and Juliet as well as other plays by Shakespeare. ... When being read Romeo and Julie...

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