...saying “Arrived in Leeds O2 to hear 2,700 people sing ‘Latch’ at the top of their voices. Go Disclosure!..” so as you can imagine, it was an intense start to the night! Arguably one of the most anticipated songs of the night was Feel The Love – Rudimental. The combination of the strobe lights, the saxophonist and the amazing voice of John Newman was enough to send shivers down your spine and led to 2700 people screaming the lyrics at the top of their lungs – I’m still singing it in my head 3 days later! Shortly after Rudimental had made my hairs stand on end, the moment we’d been waiting for had finally arrived – Annie Mac. She stood behind the somewhat makeshift DJ booth (it resembled a table covered in tin foil – in fact, I think it was a table covered in tin foil) and mixed all that was good from 2012 with old school classics and anything with a beat the crowd could bounce to. Annie’s music and sheer talent speaks for itself, but my only criticism is her lack of flare. Perhaps she is deep in concentration and lost in the music, but the...
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...Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has many characters, some good some bad. Throughout the duration of the play you gain the sense that the Capulet family (Juliet’s family) are the antagonists as Tybalt seems to always be trying to fight and Lady Capulet seems very hate filled toward the Montagues by saying all are welcome unless from the house of Montague. The characters that will be contrasted will be the hate filled Tybalt and the peaceful Benvolio, Romeo and Paris and Nurse and Lady Capulet. The peaceful Benvolio acts as a foil to the fiery, aggressive Tybalt. Tybalt is quick to anger and often instigates fights, whereas Benvolio tries to “keep the peace”. As the play opens and the servants of both houses are arguing, Benvolio tries to stop...
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...4 October 2012 The Symbol of a Mask in Romeo and Juliet As we read on into Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, we are beginning to analyze the play in greater detail. The symbolization of the mask is important- It reveals the feelings of Romeo and how their love flourishes. The use of symbolization in Shakespeare’s plays is repeating and it helps the reader, or audience take in the story with much more meaning The very night Romeo and Juliet meet marks the introduction of the mask as a symbol in the play. Romeo attends a feast at the Capulet’s but- as a Montague, Romeo would not be welcomed into their home. Fortunately, every guest is required to wear a mask! Romeo uses his mask to gain entry into the masquerade. In act 1, scene 1, Romeo speaks about how beautiful woman hide themselves behind masks and are not what they seem to be. When they first meet, their identities are concealed behind their masks, and they do not find out they are foes until the night ends. While I was creating my mask, the more I completed, the more I began to reflect myself into it creatively. I made my mask clear and simple, with dark colours and hints of personal detail that shows who I am. I love simplicity and clean, interesting detail. I showed that in the solid black lines extending from the eyes, and the small white doily I put on top. I knew I wasn’t going to do anything avant garde and busy. It doesn’t correspond with who I am. The meaning of my mask is less is more ...
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...Light Over Dark: The Choice Romeo and Juliet Didn’t Make The purpose of the light/dark motif in Romeo and Juliet is to show how Romeo and Juliet are unable to tell light from dark, or good from bad. I think everyone has the potential to distinguish what choices lead to “light” and what choices keep them in the “dark”. So Romeo and Juliet had that potential but I don’t think they wanted to know about that, since nothing else mattered to them but them. In this play, Romeo and Juliet do never make a clear choice of light over dark because they almost do not want to deal that decision in the middle of their romantic journey. They could have brought their situation which was becoming more of a mess each day, into the light by talking openly about it. However that would’ve ended the feud between the families that would have to be dealt with in some way and I’m sure Romeo and Juliet would not have lost their lives doing that. By ignoring their responsibilities and ignoring the darkness that was rising on them quickly both Romeo and Juliet allow tragedy to take them both. In the first scene, Romeo is depressed because his love for Rosaline is a one-way love. His parents are worried because Romeo spends all his time in the dark. Even when it is light, he shrouds himself in darkness to reflect his dreary mood: Away from the light steals home my heavy son / And private in his chamber pens himself / Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out / And makes himself an artificial night (I...
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...Monday, May 30th, 2011 Footage of Mercutio and Tybalt Fighting. Riot Breaks Out in the Streets of Verona Rachel Walker, Staff Reporter Tuesday, March, 16th, 1623 As the sun shone mid afternoon in the streets of Verona, Italy, on Corso Cavour Blvd, Tybalt and his kinsmen approached Mercutio and Benvolio. It was said that Tybalt was to fight against Romeo but Mercutio felt that Romeo wasn’t a worthy of opponent so he took it upon himself to fight Tybalt. From then, Mercutio and Tybalt drew out their swords and began to fight. They fought until Tybalt had killed Mercutio. Another member of the Montague’s was spotted at the scene of this event by the name of Benvolio Vicinato. He told reporter, Rachel Walker that Romeo was seen trying to stop the fight which caused Tybalt to kill Mercutio. He told reporters that Romeo was so enraged at the fact that Mercutio had died that he fought against Tybalt. Reporters say that Romeo had killed Tybalt during the fight. “Romeo is not the kind of person to fight against anyone, especially someone like Tybalt. It was a shock to see that he had killed Tybalt”, said Benvolio. According to an eye witness at the scene of the crime, Capulet and Lady Capulet had arrived to see what had happened. Lady Capulet saw her dear nephew dead and told Capulet to banish whoever was responsible for the death. After much investigation, police had found out that Romeo had killed Tybalt and that Tybalt had killed Mercutio. Therefore it was said that Capulet...
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...Phu Nguyen Ms. Leang English 1, Period 5 19 March 2015 Teen Behaviors in Romeo and Juliet Many teenagers make bad decisions, and act in a way most adult would say is unintelligent. Romeo and Juliet was a story about two feuding families with the same wealth living in Verona. After a big fight Prince Escalus tells them that if there is another fight they will be killed. Later that night Romeo meets Juliet at her father’s party and they both fall in love, after the party Romeo talks with Juliet about getting married and she agrees to have the wedding the very next day. After the wedding the two families get into another fight. Due to the fight Mercutio and Tybalt gets killed. Romeo who was also fighting was sentenced to banishment even though the Prince had said that if there was fighting there will be death. Juliet who was heartbroken drank a potion that makes her seem dead for nearly two days until the Friar could mend Romeo’s problem, but Romeo not knowing the plan thought that Juliet has really died so he kills himself. After Juliet wakes and sees Romeo dead she then kills herself too, as a result the two families end their feud because both blood lines have ended. In this play most of the teens made bad decisions. Teens tend to make bad decision because of the normal growth of their brain, Teenagers often have part in many dangerous actions. The American Academy of Child and Adolescents Psychiatry states that adolescent do dangerous things: “Based on the stage of...
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...yet and the reason for that is because a) I’m supposed to get married to Paris and b) Romeo and I are from feuding families that don’t get along at all and if my parents found out, especially my father, they would do anything in their power to separate Romeo and I. My father has already laid his hands on me and I don’t want that happening again! Any words of encouragement?! Secondly, you know my cousin Tybalt? Of course you know him, what the heck am I talking abo0ut. Anyway, he’s … I guess…. Well, he’s dead. When I heard about this I was shocked and scared because it’s my cousin and I love him. Moreover, there is more tragic news; it was Romeo that killed Tybalt! Romeo told me the full story of what happened. Basically, Tybalt killed Mercutio first and Romeo wanted revenge therefore killed Tybalt. I don’t believe what Romeo did was right nonetheless I still do understand him. You may have thought that I have finished but oh no! This is the worst news out of all of them. Romeo has been banished!! He has been staying in hiding ever since. I feel so helpless because I really do want to help him but if I do I’ll get caught and Romeo doesn’t want my help. Right now the skies are becoming grey and I’m feeling so vulnerable and miserable. Could my life get any worse? Oh, wait, yes!...
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...English Essay- Evolution of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s well-known play, Romeo and Juliet addresses the ill-fated love of two young children from feuding households set in Verona. Even though they are both children and Juliet is younger than Romeo, they both mature at different rates and ways. In addition, they are very different characters. Romeo is withdrawn, whereas Juliet is bold and brave. The differences go on and are made more obvious as the play progresses. This essay will highlight these differences and how they evolve as characters through the course of this play. Both the characters strike us as very different when we meet them for the first time. Romeo is recovering from his unrequited love. He is shown to be pining with love for a woman called Rosaline. He seems very immature in the beginning as he loses track of time and he stays in a dark room throughout the day due to his love-sickness. The play's emphasis on characters' eyes and the act of looking accords with Romeo's role as a blind lover who doesn't believe that there could be another lady more fair than his Rosaline. Romeo denies that he could be deluded by love, the "religion" of his eye. This zeal, combined with his rejection of Benvolio's advice to find another love to replace Rosaline, highlights Romeo's immaturity as a lover. We immediately feel as though his feelings are not real love, it is more of a infatuation. Romeo is in love with the concept of being in love. Juliet on the other hand...
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...At a glance, Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film version of “Romeo + Juliet” may seem completely different at a glance when compared to Franco Zeffirelli's interpretation, the two can actually be surprisingly similar if you look at it carefully.Both film versions generally have the same dialogue, both films allude the idea that both families are wealthy and have the same plot, and the characters are somewhat similar, but the difference between the 2 films are that Baz Luhrmann’s version is directed towards a young, teenage audience whose possible intent of this version of the movie is that Baz Luhrmann tries to get the kids interested in Romeo and Juliet, meanwhile Zeffirelli’s version is directed towards an audience who are more likely to be Shakespeare enthusiasts. In both movies, the dialogue is generally similar, as they are both true to the Shakespearian old english way of speaking, even though Baz Luhrmann’s version is modernized, and out of context, might not make sense to some viewers that they are speaking in old english, when it takes place in modern times. However, in Baz Luhrmann’s version, in some parts of the movie, they ever-so slightly modify the original lines from the play in order to slightly simplify it for the intended audience. Both movies show the same plot in different ways. Both movies have the feud between 2 wealthy families, in both versions, they both start with the fight between the Capulets and the Montagues, then we meet a Romeo in despair due to...
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...In the play Romeo and Juliet there lives are not controlled by fate but rather they make there own decisions during the play. Everyone feels sorry for Romeo and Juliet because their lives were controlled by fate. But, no one looks at the huge errors they made leading up to there deaths. So, that's why i think fate is not a major factor in Romeo and Juliet. Even though fate caused them to fall in love, they made decisions that affected their lives, when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. Or, when Juliet takes the sleeping potion from the friar, Also when Romeo kills Tybalt. These are all examples of free will in Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo Kills Tybalt in the play it is one of the major example of free will. When Tybalt kills Mercutio Romeo could have just walked away from Mercutio's death. But instead he forgot everything and just focused on killing Tybalt. “And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.’ this quote shows that Romeo wants to avenge Mercutio's death and he will do anything to avenge him. Even when Romeo kills Tybalt and claims he was “fortune’s fool!” It was really...
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... In Act 3 scene 2 in the play you can see that hatred. In Act 3 scene 2 Juliet talks how the hatred is shown between the two families the montagues and capulets as romeo and her cousin tybalt had a massive brawl and tybalt ended up dying in romeo's self defense. In history before Romeo and Juliet meet there 2 families montagues and capulets had hatred through each other. With them together makes the families more mad and killings will be confirmed to happen. Before act 3 scene 2 a massive fight occurred and killings were confirmed. Tybalt finds out that Romeo had married to Juliet and this made Tybalt have even more hatred this results him throwing hateful insults to Romeo. Mercutio had enough and stepped between them and challenged Tybalt, this resolved Tybalt to fight and accidentally killing Mercutio making romeo mad and full of hate and getting revenge which ended up to kill tybalt in self defense. Act 3 scene 2 Juliet speaks a massive speech about how she is depressed about finding out Romeo her husband for only 3 hours has to be banished from verona and tybalt her cousin is dead “Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banishèd.” Juliet is torn between the hatred of there families, “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband”. Juliet can't decide if she should be happy romeo is alive...
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...Romeo and Juliet Hate assumes a urgent part in the play. The long feud between the families (from ancient grudge?) and when people fight like Tybalt and Mercutio are a few cases of where this is appeared. Firstly, the work in the play opens with a short bit of content which depicts, compresses and sensationalizes the affection and contempt in the play. Shakespeare portrays the key indicates and subjects the play and outlines the plot. We additionally realize that there is struggle between the two families and that there is a differentiating theme (contempt and love). It enlightens us about the feud between the families and the battles they get into, the affection amongst Romeo and Juliet and how they both die toward the end. This promptly presents the sicken between the families that there is all through the play. It investigates the way that the two families truly loathe each other and...
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...is ready to marry them. Romeo and Juliet are immediately married a day after they met at the Capulet’s party. I think that they should have waited and thought about getting married before getting married. This is one of the three ways of how Romeo was impetuous in this play. The second way that Romeo is impatient is because right after his friend Mercutio dies Romeo decides that he want to kill Tybalt for killing Mercutio. In the text it states “Staying for thine to keep him company; Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”(3.1, 89-91) In these lines, Romeo is saying that Mercutio is above their heads waiting for either Tybalt, Romeo, or both of them to be there with him. I do not think that Romeo thought this out thoroughly. Romeo had just married the cousin of Tybalt, which is a Capulet about an hour before this scene takes place, Romeo should have thought about his wife than of revenge. In this scene, Romeo goes to find Tybalt so they can fight about Mercutio’s death. “This shall determine that,”(3.1, 93) Romeo tells Tybalt this because he is saying that the fight will determine who dies for the death of Mercutio. “Romeo, away, be gone!; The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.”(3.1, 95-96) Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin is trying to get him away from the murder because there are witnesses to him killing Tybalt. “Oh, I am fortune’s fool.”(3.1, 98) Romeo is saying that he is a fool for just marrying Juliet then go out and kill her cousin. Many people know that Romeo was just...
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...The adolescent brain is partly to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because having adolescent brains, they were more prone to making dangerous decisions. In her speech, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore says, “We know that adolescents have a tendency to take risks. They do. They take more risks than children or adults and they are particularly prone to taking risks when they’re with friends. There’s an important drive to become independent from one’s parents and to impress one’s friends in adolescence” (Document A). As described in the quote, the intense and often times irrational drive in Romeo and Juliet’s juvenile brains to take risks and to prove maturity inevitably led to their untimely passing. Additionally, Blakemore later says, “So what’s sometimes seen as the problem with adolescents - heightened risk-taking, poor impulse control, self-consciousness - shouldn’t be stigmatized” (Document A). While Romeo and Juliet cannot solely be blamed for their natural reckless tendencies due to their ages, their inclination towards risky propensities and poor impulse control were definite factors of their unfortunate deaths. An alternate determinant that shares the blame for Romeo and Juliet’s cessation is the brain in love. With similar effects as the adolescent brain, the brain in love is to be arraigned because it produced an intense obsession that the two lovers had for each other, to the point of overlooking practical common sense. In Helen Fisher’s “The Brain in Love” she states...
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...Benvolio responded by saying that if he were so easily moved to fight like Mercutio and Tybalt, he is selling his life to be close to death and to also not value it. Benvolio attempts to hold the peace but he can’t and would have fighting to hold the peace be a last resort option. Lastly, Benvolio also attempts to keep everyone from going to the extreme and make harsh decisions. When Romeo killed Tybalt, the Prince was deciding if he should have Romeo found and then kill him. Benvolio reasoned and showed him that he should be given a less harsh punishment, “Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay; Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal Your high displeasure: all this...
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