Many events take place during the five short days that they share their love. ... The play is about how she discovers love, loses love, and grows up over a very short period before her ill-fated death. ... Romeo and Juliet is very much the story of a girl becoming a woman. ... The entire story is based on her decisions and how they affect the rest of the details in the story. ... A., also explains, "In short, Juliet develops from a heroine of light comedy to a heroine of tragedy." ...

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Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins 1961 West Side Story is one such version. ... Still yet there are other versions, such as Lloyd Kaufman's 1997 cult classic Tromeo and Juliet, that are bizarre yet exhilarating versions of Shakespeare's story. ... Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet has been described as an original, post-modern 90's version of Shakespeare's tragic love story. ... Even though the presentation of the play is very unconventional, it still accurately portrays the themes of the original version, because it does not change the story at all. ... He has a...

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People may well think of Romeo and Juliet to be "the greatest love story ever told", due to their rather vague knowledge of the passion shared by the two main lovers. ... Also, she obviously still has immediate feelings for Romeo, as this is not only shown in her behaviour on the lovers" encounter, but also during her short conversation with the nurse. ... The concepts of both light and dark imagery also come together in one short, sentence from Romeo, on his farewell to Juliet. ...

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However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we draw the line between fact and fiction? ... However, Shakespeare conveys the feeling again that the summer months are often to short by saying, "And summer's lease hath too short a date" (ll. 4). ...

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(Lines 50-51, Scene 5, Act 1) He say this but he seemed to have forgotten Rosaline like old news, even though he speaks of Juliet as he spoke of Rosaline only a few short hours before. ... Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote the story of two lover's Romeoand Juliet. ... The families had to have love and hate or story would have been so good.The fight of Merutio and Tybalt was an act of hate between the two societies.In that sence Romeo had to show his hate by killing Tybalt. ...

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To Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the can...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlie...

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