Comparative Essay: Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird

Romeo and Juliet is a story based on conflict. The conflict in the story is Capulet against Montague. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean (1.Prologue.1-4).” The grudge between the two families has led to fighting and even death.

Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try and emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is

As William Shakespeare wrote the play he shows the theme by the two family feuds and their placement of the familial power between the fathers. When Juliet loves Romeo and her father tries to marry her to Paris (who was a suitor for Juliet); it is showing the power that Lord Capulet has. Especially later, when Lord Capulet lost his temper and slapped Juliet across the face for having “no appreciation”. Juliet did not want to marry Paris because she was already married to Romeo but kept in secret with Friar Lawrence. The Friar married them with some hope that the two family feuds would come to compromise and end.

details. One example of this is in the beginning of the story. In the play,

One shared character trait of both Romeo and Juliet is that they both feel that their lives

In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two teenagers in the city of Verona, Italy; in the play, there is a feud between two families and the children of the families, Romeo and Juliet, fall hopelessly in love. Because of the feud between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo and Juliet end up taking their own lives. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare should be taught in schools today because of it’s value to society and how the lessons shown and taught that can be applied today.

‘Romeo and Juliet' and ‘The West Side Story' are both movies based on William Shakespeare's play. They are very similar in many ways, but different in others. It is about two teens that fall in love and see each other without their families knowing, because their families have a feud against each other. I will be discussing the differences and similarities between, Romeo and Tony, Juliet and Maria and finally, the families and the Gangs, which are in the movies, ‘Romeo & Juliet' and ‘West Side Story'. Event thought they seem different they have the same plot line.

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe are two stories about a pair of star-crossed lovers that take their life. Both stories express the journeys that each pair of lovers took to get to each other. In spite of the different plots, there are many similarities between the two stories. These are some of the similarities between the stories, the change of the feud and berries,the lioness and Lord Capulet, and quotes from each story.

The way men convey their love for the first time is very similar, if not exactly the same in both literature and songs. “Michelle,” is a song performed by Sir Paul McCartney, at the White House for Barack and Michelle Obama. In the song, a man is trying to woo a woman, whom of which we assume is French; it is also. Lines 44-53 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is an excerpt from a play by William Shakespeare. In the excerpt, Romeo sees a young lady, who he does not know yet that it is Juliet, and shows instant interest upon putting his eyes on her. Considering both sources and what they say about men when they express their emotions, we can presume that when a male first has a passionate attraction to someone, that man is influenced by those emotions

The next similarity is both their families were enemies. They both had a wall splitting them apart too. ‘My only love sprung from my only hate.” (Shakespeare 396). This quote was said by Juliet when she found out Romeo was a Montague. As you can see these details make the two stories very

“Nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you can save that can’t be saved. Nothing you can do but you learn how to be you in time. It’s Easy.” Can you imagine, writing a song in 11 days that would be performed in front of approximately 400 million people all over the world? Sounds a bit unrealistic doesn’t it? The Beatles were asked to write a song that they would broadcast all over the world. A song that had a massage, a massage that was clear and easy to understand. Geoff Emerick once said “I don’t know if they had prepared any ides but they left it very late to write the song. John said ‘Oh God, is it that close? I suppose we’d better write something.’ “Perhaps it was the 11 day crunch that made this song a hit, or maybe it was the massage. All many know is that “All You Need is Love” is a song that has been carried throughout history for years. Many would classify this song as a classic, much like

Shakespeare represents the idea of how holiness and passionate Romeo’s love for Juliet are, through the metaphor in the quote “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” The metaphor conveys the idea of Romeo’s lips acting as pilgrims, ready to kiss Juliet tenderly. Comparing his lips to pilgrims that will worship Juliet’s lips like pilgrims who’s worship a holy place. Despite only knowing Juliet for a short period of time- still, Romeo shows his passionate love and desire to kiss Juliet. Luhrmann’s modern version which portrays the ideas through Juliet’s angel costume and the panning film technique.

Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation on Romeo and Juliet has many similarities and contrasting elements with the original, made by Shakespeare. The casting, special, and Scenery of the adaptation and the original all have some things in common or are contrasting to each other.

Tragedies explore the downfall of a main character with a doomed fate.The play Romeo and Juliet written by the playwright William Shakespeare and the film adaption directed by Baz Luhrmann use imagery to make the audience aware of Romeo and Juliet’s doomed fate. Both texts explore the story of two lovers whose destiny was to end up together dead in the afterlife. In the print version, William Shakespeare illustrates the significance of imagery through the recurring symbols and motifs of stars and light and dark. In the film version, Baz Luhrmann demonstrates the significance of imagery through the recurring symbols and motifs of religious objects and symbols as well as water.

Romeo and Juliet display the themes love and violence in multiple ways. The feud between the Montagues and Capulet is the reason for the violence in Verona. Romeo and Juliet's parents have a strong hatred towards each other that has been going on forever, and it's caused everyone from each household to hate one another. Violence in Romeo and Juliet is shown with the frequent fights between the Montagues and Capulets. A scene involving conflict is the fight involving Romeo (Montague) and Tybalt (Capulet), which didn't end well. Everything was calm, until the Capulets arrived with Tybalt who was looking for Romeo. Tybalt called Romeo a "villain" this caused insults to be thrown from him and Mercutio. When Romeo arrives he speaks with Tybalt, trying to calm him down. Romeo wanted to end this rivalry and unite the two families together, but all Tybalt wanted was to start a fight with