Romeo and Juliet show the love of two young teens that come from two rival families that experience culturally diverse worlds, unlike the lovers in West Side Story. West Side Story is about a gang member that falls in love with another gang member’s sister that are rivals, although unlike Romeo and Juliet these two lovers come from the same culturally diverse world, but are from different ethnic backgrounds. 1. The new and old versions have shown the different aspects of their societies/times through
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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare develops some very interesting characters they are curious, funny, and they love drama. They love watching fights, and some even like participating in them. Some characters fight just to fight. Other characters love drama and get into arguments for no reason. I believe that people love drama and all arguments are not misunderstandings. In today’s news with everything you see about terrorists and criminals it’s hard to believe that arguments are just
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Zeffirelli’s screenplay of Act III scene I in Romeo & Juliet surpasses Baz Luhrmann’s version by creating more sympathy for Mercutio. Zeffirelli portrays Mercutio and Tybalt’s brawl as a joke, it seems like they are having fun with one another because of the constant laughter. This tricks the audience into thinking that it is an antic for laughs. After the brawl, Mercutio is shown being thrown up into the air and cheered on. Tybalt and Mercutio telling Romeo “Leave Us!” and the roar of the crowd increases
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Prince Escalus encounters a fight breaking out on the streets of Verona between the Capulets and the Montagues. He angrily approaches the Capulets and stresses that they are disturbing Verona's citizens and would need to stop the nonsense. Prince Escalus is irate with the Capulets provoking brawls on his streets of Verona as it is the third time they had a fight with the Montagues. He warns the Capulets if a fight happens another time, then he will kill all of them. This scene demonstrates Prince
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Shaban 1 Kimia Shaban Ms. Araujo ENG 2DW Tuesday, November 10th/2015 In the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two characters from opposing families unexpectedly fall in love, and prove how strong the forces of love are. On the other hand, Twelfth Night, another novel written by William Shakespeare, also explores the themes of love, but in a comical perspective. Viola and Sebastian who are twins are separated after a shipwreck, and each character has to go through their own mishaps as they begin their
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1 2.5 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IV Pre‐reading activity: Read about Dramatic Irony on page 893. Think of an example of it from one of the previous acts. Write your example and tell why you think it is dramatic irony. During reading activity: A. What characteristics do you notice of Paris during his encounter with Juliet in Friar Lawrence’s cell? List his traits, and include textual evidence to support your ideas. B. After reading each scene
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Tragedy Of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence uses character motive to help two lovers, but his motives cause problematic scenes. Friar Laurence’s motive of marrying Romeo and Juliet was done in hope to bring their two families together. This is shown when the friar says, “In one respect I'll thy assistant be for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancour to pure love”, in act two, scene three. This excerpt is showing friar Laurence’s motive to marry Romeo and Juliet together
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Friar Laurence, proposes a dangerous plan to Juliet. Friar expresses his disapproval of the wedding plans, telling Paris that he does not know Juliet well enough to get married to her. Once alone, Juliet and the Friar talk about what can be done to save Juliet from the fate of becoming the wife of two men. He has a potion that will make her look dead when she drinks it, and it will keep her the lifeless state for forty-two hours. Juliet excitedly approves of the plan and then she goes home to drink
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Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 1 Act 3 Scene 1 is a very suspenseful scene, in this scene Tybalt is looking for Romeo so they can fight. Tybalt has not let his grudge go of finding Romeo at the Capulet’s party, Mercutio and Benvolio are walking around in the streets and they find Tybalt and other servants of the Capulets out in the streets. Tybalt sees them and explains to them what is his business with Romeo and Mercutio did not want Romeo to get hurt by him because he is an “Expert Sword Fighter
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So many times people die, but at the fault of who? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, both Rome and Juliet die, from the cause of Friar Lawrence. Friar caused these two deaths because of his lack of planning. Friar failed to give an important message to Romeo, did not stop Romeo from taking the potion, and he should not have told Juliet to do any of his plan in the first place. If Romeo had received the message from Friar Lawrence, Friar’s plan would have worked quite well. However since
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