Conformity And Conformity In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film, Romeo + Juliet effectively appropriates the Shakespearean 16th century love tragedy. So why has Luhrmann decided to appropriate Romeo and Juliet? By changing the context, Luhrmann effectively makes the play relevant, discussing his contextual concerns of the 1990’s. This is done through the use of themes in the film, love, family disputes and hate which have remained similar to the original play, although the way they have been presented are different, in particular the form and characters. The form has had an obvious change as the original play has been adapted into a film. Characters in the film have also been appropriated to correspond with Luhrmann's contextual concerns. Hence, Luhrmann successfully appropriates the original Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet by maintaining similar themes, but altering the form and characterisation to fit his contextual concerns.

When Juliet hears that the wedding has been moved up to the next day, she drinks the

After simply being banished, Romeo seeks to take his life, without realizing that he is in a better situation than others (including his dead friend, Mercutio). Not understanding how his life will impact others, he makes the decision to die. Eventually, the Friar, an adult figure with a developed mind, steps in and uses reason, which Romeo lacks. Not only does Romeo act in such a manner, but Juliet also shares the same characteristic. After meeting Romeo at the Capulet’s party, knowing him for about 1 minute, Juliet kisses him, and they seek marriage. This is despite her saying later on that ”Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (Shakespeare II.ii 116-118). As Juliet is still a teenager, however, her animal instincts get the best of her, and they get married the next day. Through this, it is shown that while teenagers may know how to deal with things rationally (like Juliet’s little blurb on how she shouldn’t marry), their undeveloped minds get the better of them, and they go with their natural flow.

When someone loses or doesn’t get the affection from the person they love, they often take extreme measure. In the text as Benedict states, “And when rejected, some people contemplate stalking, homicide,suicide. This drive for romantic love can be stronger than the will to live.”In act 5, scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo gets the news of Juliet being dead, so his plan is to join her in death. He tells the apothecary to break the law because it doesn’t help with anything. To relate to his situation, the law cares nothing about his love, and so he’s breaking it. Romeo buys poison because he knows he wouldn’t be able to survive without her. When we have lost the person we love there is a feeling of emptiness and a person feels as though they

Romeo & Juliet is set in a community with social norms that reflect Shakespeare's world. While the story itself is based on creativity the characters act within the standards institute by the author. Shakespeare's depiction of women's gender roles through different levels of social classes effect the plot, Verona's society, and character interactions in Romeo & Juliet. The plot of this infamous play is full of romance and tragedy controlled by the setting of its time period.

Shakespeare's famous play of the two star crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet arouses many debates in the literary world; among them belongs the question of who Shakespeare portrays as the culprit responsible for the couples death: foolish young love, societal norms and customs or simply fate?The plot of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare unfolds in Verona, where the protagonists, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, each belong to powerful feuding Verona families. Juliet, who is only 14 years of age, has been promised by her father to a man named Paris without her consent, as was common for women at the time. In Verona, expectations and societal norms for men and women diverge. Men are portrayed as sexual, violent, strong characters who fight for honor while women are portrayed as inferior, weaker and represent possessions and conquests of men. Although, Juliet does not conform to these expectations and defies them throughout the play by her actions and behavior until she meets a tragic and untimely death with her lover Romeo. William Shakespeare uses Juliet, an unconventional protagonist compared to the society’s gender roles, and her tragic downfall to criticize the patriarchal society he lived in during the Elizabethan era.

The human condition is a topic that William Shakespeare used widely. Almost every work of his explores the depths of the human mind like no other. This term refers to the darkest parts of the human psyche; we are full of dark morals and flaws, no matter how enlightened one may seem. One of his most notable plays, Romeo and Juliet, includes star-crossed lovers, murder, grief, and hatred. Every character Shakespeare wrote in had a specific role in shaping and accelerating the story with their flaws and motivations.

In the very last scene of the play, Romeo goes back to Verona to go lay with his “dead” wife – who is actually under the influence of a death-like drug – after hearing from his servant about her death. He travels with his trustworthy servant all the way to the tomb, but when they reach the tomb, Romeo asks for his servant to leave. Romeo, in his obsession-driven self, threatens to tear his servant limb from limb and scatter his remains across the graveyard if he doesn’t leave Romeo. This shows that Romeo is losing himself. He isn’t just a man who likes the idea of love, he’s a man who drives himself insane with the idea of love. Even though his love for Juliet can be summed down to beauty, his mind amplifies his feelings for her. Towards the end of Act 5, Scene 3, Romeo drinks poison to “join” Juliet in her death. Romeo even goes as far as to call the poison a cordial because he believes that it will heal him – heal his pain of not being with Juliet. This shows that, Romeo’s obsessive nature made his irrational decision seem rational. A relationship to heal him from his pain of Rosaline turned into a relationship that ended with death. His mind created his feelings towards Juliet, yet he continued to let himself be deceived. His made-up passion-driven obsession with Juliet ultimately led to his

How long does the spotlight last? Like almost always time is not kind. Many people argue that a work of literature before 1900 is outdated and has nothing to contribute to modern society. Other argue that classic works are timeless in what they say about human nature. Should we respect the classic pieces of literature that is the foundation for society today, or should we evolve and find a new foundation? One would think that most literature pieces written before 1900 are irrelevant because society has changed and although human nature has not changed it is presented in a different way. Romeo and Juliet is a non relevant work due to its outdated stance on marriage, equality, and definition of love.

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet defies the “stereotypical gender normality’s” that were present in 1595. Throughout the play, the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, continuously oppose to the gender-based normality’s that are expected of them. They defy the gender-based stereotypes surrounding love and relationships, the gender roles around marriage. Even the character's way in which they end their lives are more “suited” towards the opposite gender.

Once in a while many people make bad decisions. Usually these decisions don’t cause them any harm in their futures, unlike Romeo Montague’s and Juliet Capulet’s decisions. In Verona, a city in Italy, two lovers fall in love. The catch is their families despise each other. Eventually Romeo get’s banished from Verona, and Juliet is forced to marry someone she doesn’t want to marry. Juliet takes a potion that knocks her out for 42 hours, and feigns her death, hoping she does not have to marry Count Paris. Romeo assumes Juliet is dead, and drinks a potion that kills him, and when Juliet wakes up and realizes that Romeo is dead, she stabs herself. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, the main protagonists, Romeo and Juliet,

As Atticus once said, “It seems to me that love could be labeled poison, and we’d drink it anyway”. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, they love each other so much that they are willing to go great distances for each other, even if that distance is death. Lord and Lady Capulet are uneducated about the feud and have no proper explanation on why it is occuring, yet have no inch of forgiveness in their bodies to stop it. Juliet’s parents are very distant with her and if they might have showed they care, that could have prevented her death. If they perhaps asked Juliet instead of forcing her to marry Paris, she wouldn’t have been upset for the reason she has already gave her vows to Romeo. Juliet’s parents accuse her of grieving over Tybalt,

Denton Snider, an American Scholar claims, “Romeo and Juliet are destroyed by their own love...just as the passion of hate, the intensity of love’s passion blots out reason and self-control and leads to destructive behavior.” (Kerschen 2). To put it briefly, Snider believes Romeo and Juliet are in fault for their own deaths. Love can make people do strange things, but there is a bigger picture in this situation. Romeo and Juliet’s affiliation was forbidden. Inevitably, something big, maybe even death, would’ve happened as a consequence to them being together. It was their love that made Juliet acquire help from Friar Laurence to fake her own death. In the same way, when Romeo asked the Apothecary to sell him an elixir, to end his life by the side of Juliet. Their love did have a part in their death, but they wouldn’t have had to end their lives, if their relationship wasn’t

Stoppard’s satirical movie, Shakespeare in Love, is a play on Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. Stoppard places Shakespeare himself into a relationship with Viola De Lesseps, that resembles the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Stoppard incorporates countless parallels into the film from Shakespeare’s love story, including the character development of major authority figures. The prince and the queen, Capulet and Viola’s father, and the Friar and the Priest are all figures of authority and parallel between the two works; Stoppard gave his cast similarities to Shakespeare’s characters, but they also varied in some aspects. Stoppard’s decision to both keep some and change some character attributes of these authority figures helps contribute and develop the ending of the movie, just as Shakespeare’s character developments contributed to the outcome of his plays.

William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet, which is about the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are forbidden to see one another, due to their families’ feud. The Capulets, Juliet, and Montagues, Romeo, are the enemies in this feud. The question is, were the parents against them? Or were they just trying to protect and make them happy? Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. When he was eighteen years old, he married Anne Hathaway and has three children, Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet.