Compare And Contrast Romeo And Juliet Day And Night Essay

Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately

Romeo and Juliet’s hope is realized, with the two families coming together, though the price was high. After Romeo hears news of Juliet’s death, Romeo goes to her tomb late at night and kills himself with a poison obtained from the apothecary. Romeo says before entering the tomb, “Give me the light” referring to the torch his companion was holding

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

Juliet’s state of mind at this point in the play definitely revolves around this idea of light vs. dark – her fears and hopes. After hearing about the loss of her cousin, Tybalt, she faces the obstacle in which she is forced to choose which path to take. Friar Lawrence gives Juliet the opportunity to run away with Romeo, but in order to do so; she must leave behind her remaining loved

In the beginning of the play, the motif of light vs. dark is displayed through imagery. “But all so soon as the all-cheering sun should in the farthest east begin to draw… away from light steals home my heavy son... and makes himself an artificial night.” (Montague, 1.2.127-128 130&133). This quote shows that the happy sun does not affect Romeo and the sad night is how he feels because of the darkness of the night. The quote also reveals that his depressed state is represented by darkness. This reveals a central idea that love will overpower all feelings, because he is sad that his love did not work out and caused him to be depressed.

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

Just the night before the young man snuck into the Capulet backyard, to speak to his love interest, completely disregarding common practices of courtship and respect, murders Tybalt, and now plans to sneak into a young lady’s room. The rule breaker would not break all the rules without a good reason though. Romeo finds love at the Capulet’s party, “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun, Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon” (2.2.4-5). The young poet speaks in rhymed verse to show off his education and knowledge, while he recites an analogy about his love interest. The lover cannot stop thinking of his fiance and regards her with such high vigor that he compares her to the sun. Romeo compares his love interest to the sun, referencing her beauty and brightness. He wishes her to arise and fill the sky, because she brightly shines and he wishes

Once Romeo and Juliet talk, even though they do not know each other's names, it is an unrequited love that both are swept off their feet by. In Act 2, scene 1 Romeo is almost begging for the time of the world to stop. His whole world now revolves around his love for Juliet and is clearly see when he says "Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out" (889). The lover's desire for night to always come quickly or to stay longer is Shakespeare's way of incorporating time as another reoccurring theme

After the death of his best friend, Romeo says, “This day’s black fate on more days doth depend./ This but begins the woe others must end” (3.1.124-125). This quote is foreshadowing the near death of Tybalt as well as his own death. With what begins, the light between Romeo and Juliet can only happen when other woes end, speaking of the feud between the two families which is the darkness to Romeo and Juliet’s light. This day’s black fate is describing the darkness in the day and how it will over time catch up to the light and destroy it.

In lines 18-20, Juliet’s personification reveals her true emotions. Juliet personifies Romeo’s skin as whiter than snow. She also personifies the night as gentle, loving, and black-browed. Juliet’s personification affects the following scene because the night is anything but gentle and loving. Juliet’s night is dark and horrible. She is told that Romeo is banned and that she may never see him again. All the thoughts and dreams she has of being with him may no longer come true. Additionally, the personification of the night affects the whole play because we later see how nighttime does not bring happiness as Juliet believes it does. Both Juliet and Romeo commit their suicides at night. The night is a time of sadness and darkness in the tragedy, the opposite of gentle and

Romeo and Juliet Movie There are many differences in time period between the Romeo and Juliet movie and the play. The people in Verona had much less advanced technology than in the movie. For example, the opening and ending scene in the movie started out with a television. During the time period the play was taking place, everyone had to send messages and letters face to face to the other person.

We were at the night of Verona’s biggest masque! Hosted by the one and only Capulets. Of course the talk of the night was what everyone is wearing. Obvious common fashion of a woman who would show at a party of such high class is a head-dress, corset, gown, and kirtle, but it's who looks the best. My personal favorite of night: Juliet Capulet, only daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. She wore a solid red kirtle, without a farthingale (a risk that she managed to pull off), orange sleeves and slicked back hair, with a gorgeous head-dress. A definite ‘Do’ of the night.

Romeo and Juliet follows the same framework to that of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Once more, the thread of the story progresses through the character of Juliet, beginning with the ominous declaration of the Chorus. Instantly, they beg that “patient ears attend,” (968) already accentuating the stress of the play. The entirety of the plot progresses quickly, and as Heyworth interprets it, the “proximity of a definite date, of finite time, lends the language of the later acts a frantic, importunate quality” (9). In this manner, just as the progression of A Midsummer Night’s Dream hastily followed the actions of Hermia, the arrangement of her marriage, and the events that transpire, the plot of Romeo and Juliet relies heavily upon the notion of time as well.

It was a dark night, there were no stars in the sky, and it looked like it was going to rain, despite the freezing cold weather Romeo still managed to sneak back into the sleeping Verona. He had been told about Juliet's death the night before. His heart was heavy and the tears were rolling down his face, making him look as unhappy as Juliet was when she was told Romeo was gone. As Romeo made his way to Juliet’s final resting place, he couldn’t help but smile when he thought of her warm hugs, her soft hands holding his, and her polite smile reassuring him everything was going to be alright. Suddenly he burst into tears, remembering that everything wasn’t alright and nothing was going to be alright, because she was resting peacefully as he was slowly dying from her absence. When he reached her coffin he pulled out the vile of poison and started talking to the Juliet he imagined was sitting beside him, responding to everything he said. Just as Romeo put the tip of the vile to his lip, his hand slipped and the vile broke as it hit the ground, spilling the poison everywhere. Raging with anger, Romeo fell to the ground screaming “why, why me, all I wanted to do was be with my beloved Juliet.” Just at that moment he heard footsteps coming towards him, he quickly stood up and ran to the nearest object he could hide behind, but little did he know the person coming heard his footsteps too. “I know someone’s there, I heard you, please come out”. Romeo didn’t know whether he should

Romeo “many a morning hath…been seen/with tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,/…the shady curtains from Aurora’s bed,/away from light steals home…,/and private in his chamber pens himself,/shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,/and make himself an artificial night” (Act 1, Scene 1. Lines 124-130). This quote evokes the tone of somber because Romeo’s tears are augmenting the clear dew, due to his depressed state, and is holding the emotions inside causing the tear to become unclear and contrast with the dew. Dew is clear and is transparent, expressing its emotions freely. This quote also demonstrates that Romeo is regressing because he is not accepting the reality. Therefore, Romeo makes himself an artificial night to keep the sun from shining the truth of love and staying in the moment thus not letting go. This indicates that Romeo and Juliet are a mockery of teenage impulsiveness because teenagers react more strongly toward situations than adults, Romeo reacted to his rejection more strongly causing himself to be isolated from the