Comparing Original Versions Of Romeo And Juliet

Document D shows, “They are two-star crossed lovers who live apart from each other because of the war between the Montague and the Capulet family that results in death in order to be resolved.” This relates to when Juliet was upset with Father Capulet because he has made arrangements for her to marry Paris. Lord Capulet is unaware of Juliet liking an enemy from a different family. In addition, he also does not know that his daughter is in love with a banished lover who happened to kill Juliet's cousin. This action causes Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping drug. Due to being far away from his wife, Romeo hears about this news and commits suicide by drinking poison. A couple of moments later Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead. Afterwards, she commits suicide by stabbing herself with a sword. When these deaths are seen, it causes the Montagues and the Capulets to come together. Romeo and Juliet's death could have been avoided if the fathers had stopped the feud between the two

     There are many similarities and differences between the sixties version of Romeo and Juliet and the modern version of Romeo and Juliet. It is very easy to spot these differences considering the time period each movie was set in. There are some things in the play that totally got cut from both movies. There are also some things that they added to the movies that weren’t in the play. Let us get on to the similarities and differences.

Romeo and Juliet first met each other at a party at the Capulets house. They fall in love with each other at the first sight without knowing that they are from families who hate each other, and when they do learn about it, it is too late. Juliet realizes that it was a mistake to fall in love with Romeo, because he is one of the people she should watch out for. He is her first and only love, but he is an enemy of her family. Lucky for Romeo, Juliet is smart, and such dumb thing as hate between their parents wouldn't stop her from loving Romeo and getting married with him. She is sorry that their families are enemies, though, because everything would be much easier if they weren't. So this is the first time when the hate between Capulets and Montagues becomes problem to Romeo and Juliets happiness. Only after their children die, the Montagues and Capulets come to their senses. The Prince accuses them of killing Romeo and Juliet. The Prince makes them see how wrong they were all the time, that all because of their hate, because they couldn't let their children love each other, Romeo and Juliet died. After that, Capulets and Montagues decide to call it quits. No more fighting, and Montague even says that he will make a gold statue of Juliet, but what is that going to do? It is too late, nothing will bring them back. It is totally Capulets' and Montagues' fault that Romeo and Juliet died. If they didn't hate each other so much,

Going back to this certain person, they may ask, “Why ‘Romeo and Juliet’? It’s only a story about two teenagers who fall in love than kill themselves since they can't have each other.” Well it isn’t. “Romeo and Juliet” is more than that. Reading the text, seeing if Romeo loves Juliet is no question, as well as if the Capulets hate the Montagues. However the ending shows the true

In the story Romeo and Juliet, there was a lot of death for example Tybalt, Paris, Lady Montague, Romeo and Juliet all died. In this story it starts off by you finding out that the families do not like each other, you could say they even hate each other, as the story goes along eventually Romeo and Juliet and on act 1 scene 5 meet for the first time. After that in the final act Romeo who thinks Juliet is dead so on page 272 line 120 he kills Paris and himself,

While leading up to the climax, the story gets increasingly ironic and tragic. Juliet is seen as dead, although Shakespeare has shown us earlier that she will reawake in two days, this particular piece of dramatic irony leads to the rest. Romeo, unaware of this plan due to a bit of cosmic irony, rides back to Verona, after hearing news of Juliet?s ?death.? When he gets there, confronted by Paris who believes he is trying to do some evil from hate, not there for love, he is forced to kill Paris who we realize has true unrequited love for Juliet. And in the end Romeo believing that Juliet is truly dead gives a ?kiss of death? and drinks the poison, believing he will finally be able to meet with Juliet in peace. In these last two acts a combination of dramatic and cosmic irony lead to the loss of Juliet?s, Romeo?s, and Paris?s life. The Irony also portrays the obliviousness and rashness of Romeo, he gets there and finds that Juliet looks and feels alive and warm after being ?dead? for nearly two days, yet

The most obvious, and first difference comes in the first act of Romeo and Juliet and the first scene of Gnomeo and Juliet, when the main characters are introduced (Act 1. Scenes 1-5. Lns. 1-45). In the modern take on the story that is shown in Gnomeo and Juliet the characters are depicted as gnomes. While in the original plot the character are humans. This is clearly a huge difference between the original story and the ageless original.

Most of everyone knows the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. If you have ever read it then you know how it ends, or if you have ever heard about it you know how it ends. What I want to know is why? Why the two forbidden star crossed lovers took their own lives, but there is no answer for that. There is also no answer as to why the two families, The Montagues and The Capulets could not get along. It took the tragedy that had occurred for them to become civil with each other. In my essay I will be discussing how the two star crossed lovers got along with their parents and if they were rebellious in the modern sense. Along with how their parents felt about them.

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is a tragedy between two lovers from two opposing households, the Montagues and the Capulets, who have a tragic and deadly ending. Romeo gets exiled from Verona, Italy, because he killed a Capulet named Tybalt in a sword fight. Juliet and Romeo are devastated from the banishment order because they would no longer be with each other. The consequences of this sad news, drive the two young lovebirds to a fatal ending.Friar Laurence, Mercutio, and Juliet foreshadow the two endings of the two lover’s downfall.

They get married but since Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo has no choice but to kill him. Romeo gets banished from Verona and so he can no longer be with Juliet. Due to a few mishaps with the Friar, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and goes to her tomb to drink poison and die with her but Juliet awakes just after Romeo drank the poison. When Juliet realizes what happened, she kills herself. Many characters contributed to the fall and death of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.

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Friar Lawrence sent a letter to Romeo to explain the situation with Juliet, but something happened and Romeo did not get the message. When he learned of Juliet’s death, he was heartbroken. He bought poison to kill himself, so that he would be with Juliet again. When Romeo went back to Verona, he ran into Count Paris and they began fighting. The fight ended when Romeo killed Paris. Romeo then saw his beloved Juliet in her grave and he took the poison. When Juliet woke up, she was surrounded by Romeo and Paris, both dead. The Friar was also there, but she told him to leave her. Juliet stabbed herself so she could once again be reunited with her true love, Romeo. The story ended with the Capulets and the Montagues mourning over their losses, and

Shakespeare manifests the final scene of Romeo and Juliet to illustrate how love triumphs over the terror of death and depicts how the Capulet and Montague parents’ mutual love for their children dismisses the ancient feud. The protagonists, Romeo and Juliet’s preference of being killed rather than “death be prorogued, wanting thy love” (Page 91; Act 2, Scene 2), indicates they would rather die than death be delayed without the fulfilment of each other’s love. Romeo commits suicide as he is unaware that Juliet’s death is fiction, which results in Juliet finding his corpse when she awakens and stabs herself as they both do not wish to live with the absence of each other’s love. Again, Shakespeare portrays that love conquers the most feared prospect of life:

The scene that was most different between the play and the movie of Romeo and Juliet was how the two crossed lovers first met each other. In the play Romeo and the Montague boys find out about the Capulet party through a poor peasant who could not read the invitations. While in the movie the Capulet party is announced through a newscast over T.V. I think the director changed this so the invite can go more along with the time period of the movie. This could change how the viewers see it by making the invite less secret. Over a newscast anyone who was paying attention to the T.V. could of heard the invite. Another main difference in this scene would be Romeo and Juliet first seeing each other in the bathroom across a fish tank rather than across the ballroom in the play. This could take away from the romantic side of the two first seeing each other. In the play it seems Romeo and Juliet have more privacy when they first speak to each other. In the movie the two are getting on and off an elevator just not to be seen. This could add more suspense to the scene and make the viewers see the movie from a lofty viewpoint.

When the Capulets and Montagues walk into Juliet’s tomb they find Juliet and Romeo dead beside each other. The two families realized that the deaths of their only children were because of the hatred between their families it caused them to stop despising each other. The evidence for this is in Scene 5 Act 3 when Capulet says “O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more can I demand.” Here he is saying to Montague that we need to come to a state of peace as that is all my daughter wanted. This shows that Romeo and Juliet’s love has made the two families realize that they need to end their feud. They both state that they will put a statue of Romeo and Juliet in pure gold as Capulet says they were the “poor sacrifices of our enmity.” He is saying that they were the sacrifices to make their feud. This is evident as because of Romeo and Juliet’s true love they lost their lives to be together but has ending with the two families coming to peace. Even though the deaths of these two young lovers was what made the families hatred finally end, Romeo and Juliet could have survived if the families didn’t hate each other. Evidence of this is when the Prince says, “Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords, too have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.” Here he is saying that because of the families hate it has lead to the deaths of many and they all must be punished. Capulet and Montage are one of the main reasons for Romeo and Juliet’s death as there would have been no reason for Romeo and Juliet to hide their love. If the two families have just resolved their differences a long time ago Romeo and Juliet could have lived happily together but they sadly realized this after they lost their