The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a well known and very well liked story about two star-crossed lovers who end up killing themselves for love’s sake. During the entire play there are several genres flowing throughout the story. The obvious ones like love, conflict and drama are there, but there are also some not so well known ones like fate, tragedy, loyalty and authority. Tragedy’s definition is a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially
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Imaginative Spoken Soliloquy O Romeo Romeo, my sweet child. Such injustice the prince hath set on you. How could defending the honour of your friend, cause you to be shunned by all Verona (sob, pause and use handkerchief). Mercutio lost his life protecting my dear son. But Romeo had no other choice than to seek vengeance on Tybalt. He was just defending the honour of his friend. This ruling is not fair, my son has never done any wrong he is just a naïve, young soul. (Hand on heart) thou I am
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Love stories are not always like what many think with two lovers destined to be with one another. Although many stories end with “happily ever after,” some end in death or unfortunate situations. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two lovers from enemy families, face many great obstacles to be together but results in multiple deaths from both families. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is about a teen named Katniss who volunteers as a tribute in the Hunger
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play, “The Tragedy Of Romeo and Juliet” there were plenty of choices made by Juliet that emphasizes her ways and ways of thinking. Juliet is a 13 year old Couplet soon to become 14 who falls in love with 15 year old Romeo and a member of the Montague family. In this tragedy, with the Montagues and Capulets being sworn enemies, their love is complicated and altogether they were all forbidden to begin with let alone to meet each other. Throughout the play we see Juliet with Romeo make foolish decisions
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love that is expressed by Romeo is the most important idea in Act. 1 because it displays the ambiguity behind the meaning of love. Romeo describes the grief that unrequited love has caused him: “‘Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes’” (23). By using the metaphor that love is a fume made from sighs, Romeo implies that love is a result of sadness; the comparison to fumes also hints that love is ambiguous and mysterious. Romeo then speaks of the smoke
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Post-modernism in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet: a comparison of two creative works from two different periods. In 1996, Baz Luhrmann directed “Romeo + Juliet”, a modern twist on the famous tragedy play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in 1597, in which the main characters Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet where portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. While some praise the strange interpretation of the old tale, there are also those
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Critique The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, set in the city of Verona, Italy, was written in the 1500's by William Shakespeare where two young people fall in love in rebellion to their parent's rules because of a feud that has lasted many years between their two families. In the play, Juliet's furious cousin Tybalt wants to kill Romeo, and in the process ends up killing Romeo's cousin Mercutio. In this series of events, Romeo kills Tybalt for revenge of his cousin's
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only then that Romeo had came up to us. Tybalt’s attention went towards Romeo and then he proceeded to call him a “Villain.” Romeo had calmly told him he only had a reason to love him and was not the “Villain” he had called him. Tybalt took what he had said only as a joke. He had stated that Romeo’s words were just excuses to the pain that he had caused
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convictions, but at the end the end Winston turn came. Orwell displays selfishness in Winston as he ends up betraying Julia once their relationship was put to the test and he saw that his life had been threatened by O’Brien; if Winston was put in Romeos position, he probably would not have committed suicide for Julia. As the mask came towards him and time was mocking him, he wished Julia could be in his place instead of him, he could of wished for it just to stop, but as well as the thought of her
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Shakespeare presents the treatment of Juliet by Romeo, her Parents and Society in general. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare presents the treatment of Juliet by Romeo, her Parents, and Society in general through the interactions and conversations between Juliet and the other characters. Shakespeare uses the interactions between not only Juliet and the other characters but the interactions between the other characters themselves as well. Many of the ways the Juliet is treated stay the same between characters
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