The production that I selected to critically review is Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann's version of forbidden love and the eventual suicide deaths of young Juliet and Romeo is translated with a unique integration of modern setting and language without losing the original texture and meaning of Shakespeare's work. 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is evidently intended for a younger demographic of viewers, partially due to quick paced and choppy editing, modern cultural allusions, as well as star power consisting of a cast ...

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L1 English Essay- William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet "What type of love is the most powerful in Romeo & Juliet?" Discuss: In the book "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare there are many powerful types of love demonstrated. ... (Shakespeare,W., 1990. ... (Shakespeare,W., 1990. ... Love is a very powerful word and especially in William Shakespeare's story, "Romeo and Juliet." ...

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Romeo's Changes Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1610. The story takes place in Verona, Italy. Romeo is a lost young man trying to find true love while Juliet is like a bird locked in its cage waiting to be let out. In this tragic love story, Romeo goes through many diffe...

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Written in the 1590's, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is still a popular play today. ... Shakespeare uses very colorful language when writing Romeo and Juliet. ... That was a part of the appeal during Shakespeare's time. ... Sometimes if Shakespeare didn't have a word for something, he"d make up a word. ...

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William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, brings this question to the surface. ... Many times Shakespeare refers to fate as being the reason that they died. When the prologue uses the phrase "Star-crossed lovers" this indicates William Shakespeare's thoughts on what kills Romeo and Juliet. ... "The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl" spoken by the Benvolio after he hears about the death of Tybalt confirms that Shakespeare feels that luck is what determines what happens. Yet, Shakespeare doesn't tell about the poor judgement that the two young teenagers use. ...

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Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," (Shakespeare Prologue Lines 1-3) These are the opening words of William Shakespeare's ageless tale Romeo and Juliet. ... Although Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, has been portrayed in numerous films with different interpretations, nevertheless, the underlying themes remain the same because they are universal themes that speak to certain aspects of humanity that have not changed. ... Another theme that Shakespeare uses in the play is hatred....

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In "Romeo and Juliet," William Shakespeare proposes that love and desire control much of human lives. ... No / I have forgot that name and that name's woe" "(Shakespeare 2.3.45-46). ... Juliet's willingness to kill herself is the last example that Shakespeare uses to explain how love controls many of the important decisions of life. ... In conclusion, Shakespeare is shows that love and desire control a large part of daily life. ... Shakespeare shows that love is a prohibiter of judgement, and an incredibly powerful force that should be treated as such....

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Fate is the dominant theme throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... Thus, it can clearly be seen that fate is the dominant theme throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ...

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The character of Mercutio was a valuable asset to William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet." ... Mercutio provided the audience with clever word play, perceptive comments and fast paced action, never giving them time to get bored, proving that he was a definite benefit to William Shakespeare's famous tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" ...

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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 cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. ... However, Jerrold Hogle points out in his essay "Afterwa...

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William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, has multiple levels of understanding and interpretation. ... Without Romeo the way he is, Shakespeare's play would not and could not be the same....

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Romeo The main character in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is Romeo. Romeo is a member of the Montague family, his father is old Montague. Romeo has four main qualities in him. Melancholic, impulsive, witty, and loving. The melancholic Romeo is showed twice in the play; the fist ...

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. Fate is something that controls your future, and you can do nothing to change it. Destiny is what many religions and time periods believed in. Romeo and Juliet's destiny is to never be happy. (45 words) Romeo's love always goes w...

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Some of the scenes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are different from the ones in Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet. ... One of the most famous scenes in all of Shakespeare's plays is the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. ... It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden / Too like the lightening, which doth cease to be." ( Act 2, Scene 2) Shakespeare is sending a warning through Juliet's mouth. ... Shakespeare wrote that Juliet awoke after Romeo had taken the poison and found both Paris and Romeo slayed at her feet. ... I am fairly positive that William...

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In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses oxymorons to express and show the conflict in Juliet's heart when she learns that her husband has killed her favorite cousin. ... To show these emotions, Shakespeare uses oxymorons as Juliet storms: O serpent heart, hid with a flow"ring face! ... Shakespeare has a tendency to use ravens, owls and hell-kites as the symbol of death and chaos. In Macbeth Shakespeare uses a hell-kite instead of a raven to express the same emotions that Juliet is having with another character, Macduff. As Juliet continues her ranting Shakespear...

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William Shakespeare's masterwork, "Romeo and Juliet," is unabashedly a tragedy. ... I feel that Shakespeare certainly ensures that all of the tragic events that take place in the play, eventually lead up to the deaths of the two young lovers. ... From the very outset of the play, Shakespeare clearly states, through the Chorus, that this play is most certainly destined to be a tragedy. ... Even though the play ends on a somewhat positive note, it still doesn't lessen the true extent of the tragedy that the feud actually caused in the first place In conclusion, Shakespeare's thea...

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In both the novel the Story of the Stone written by Cao Xueqin and the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, death is the main theme. ... " (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 5, Line 154) Juliet's dad is mad at her, because she doesn't intend to get married with Paris. ... "I do defy thy conjuration, and apprehend thee for a felon here. " (Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 3, Line 68)Paris decides to fight with Romeo after Romeo asks him to go away. ... "As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. " (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 1, Line 65) The sentence illustrates that Tybalt hate all Mon...

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Who was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? The controversial end scene of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" leaves many unanswered questions in the mind of the reader. One of which is "Who was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?". I believe that the most influentia...

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In the drama script "Romeo and Juliet", by William Shakespeare one of the main themes shown throughout the play is conflict. The central conflict is the ancient feud between the houses of Montague and Capulet. The first mention of conflict is in the prologue. "Two households, both alike kin dig...

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In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare it seems that fate is the driving force behind the events that lead to an unavoidable and tragic end for the both of them. ... Shakespeare summed it up best (of course) in the last few lines of the play, spoken by a prince: "A glooming peace this morning with it brings. ...

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In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet there are many examples of irony, and they all add to the plot of the story in their own way. William Shakespeare uses this literary device in Romeo and Juliet to build up to the dramatic and catastrophic end of these two ill-fated lovers. ...

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In William's Shakespeare immortal tale, Romeo and Juliet, love and hate are juxtaposed to portray the antithesis between the two themes. William Shakespeare purposely contrasted these two themes to convey an idea that one cannot exist without the other, a balance in all things in nature, for instance, the correlative use of a light/dark polarity. ... The lovers have a fair share of both, yet in the end it is their intense longing to be together, united in death, that consolidates the point Shakespeare wishes to make about the nature of true love. ... Shakespeare uses Benvolio and Mer...

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Romeo and Juliet Essay In the story "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare has a different purpose or meaning he wants each specific character to display. The character I chose was Tybalt, a Capulet. He portrays hatred towards the Montagues. Though the Montagues are the Capulet...

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A Character Most Like Me Tyler Brown In Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare, there are several minor and major characters. Out of all the characters I had to pick from, I chose Romeo. I chose Romeo, because Romeo and I are alike in several ways, and different in others. So far, I have...

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Heartbreak is showed drastically through the story with the ups and downs Romeo and Juliet face through their journey of love.Throughout the story, William Shakespeare presents the theme of heartbreak in through dramatic irony and dialogue. ...

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