Romeo And Juliet And Ship Breaker Analysis

In the two stories The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisby they both were star-crossed lovers and made their own choices throughout the stories. For example they chose to love each other even though they knew it wouldn't end well. Personal choices affect the characters more than destiny because they decided to get married and they killed themselves.

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.

Everyone knows the story: amidst the fighting of two families, a girl meets the guy of her dreams, within a day they are married and, later, they kill themselves. Some people believe that Romeo and Juliet promotes unacceptable behavior in teens; however, it is a very important part of the ninth grade language arts education because it has global influence and teaches lessons to people.

Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story written by William Shakespeare, in the Elizabethan era of English history. The work tells of the fatal attraction between Romeo and Juliet, how they met and why, their falling in love and their ultimate sacrifice for each other’s love, their actual lives. Fate has complete control, is a theme that is riddled throughout the text written by Shakespeare. It is essentially pointing out the view that everything we do or will, is at the mercy of fate, and whatever we do to counteract it, fate still holds the final judgement over our lives. This theme is also prevalent in cinematic codes written into both the visual representations of the Shakespearean love story by Franco Zefirelli and Baz Luhrmann. Two

Love, in 'Romeo and Juliet' has its own importance in the theme of inner struggle between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is torn between staying loyal to her family and therefore obeying her parents to marry Paris or staying married to an enemy, Romeo, “My husband lives, that Tybalt has slain; / And Tybalt's dad, that would have slain my husband: / All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?” (3:2). On the other hand, Romeo has his struggles too. He juggles between the idea of banishment from Verona and not being able to see his beloved Juliet again and that of death, “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'.” (3:3). The secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet is also one of the outcomes due to love. It is because of love that Juliet risked her parents' disapproval to not marry Paris and Romeo risked the danger of being killed by Capulet's kinsmen to go to see her. Yet again, this shows the inner struggle of Romeo and Juliet.

This example of Romeo and Juliet and how much they sacrificed to be together is his way of showing it. They sacrificed Family, Loyalty, and their own lives for love and that takes a pretty big influence to do that. Shakespeare makes a valid point when describing love in this play, although it is dramatized. Most people today wouldn’t kill themselves after the person that they’ve been married to for a few days died, but Romeo and Juliet's role in this play is to clearly show the influence of love and not just act like the average person. Today the influence of love would be shown through moving so that you can stay with your partner or doing something that you would never do just for the same love that Romeo and Juliet have. Love is the only thing that stands above all logic, calculation, and obvious thought and that is what Shakespeare is showing in this

daughter of his enemy. When he finds out in the party that Juliet is a

Fate has always been of interest to society, and even today, people continue to question whether someone’s life is destined for a certain fate, or if it is shaped by their own free-will. Such thoughts come into play throughout various acts and scenes of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s play often strongly suggests that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is built upon fate and free-will. There are many critics who argue fate is what makes up this play in its entirety due to the various fate related ideas evoked throughout it. Although fate does indeed play some roles in the shaping of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, overall, it is free-will that plays a much greater role throughout their tragedy and is ultimately at work in this play.

We usually have to think long and hard before we can make up our minds. Knowing that a decision can change your life leaves a lot of pressure on you. Our decisions can be influenced by the people around us, and the situations we are in while being forced to make them. In Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers whose names are always thought and pronounced together were separated by decisions made by Romeo. At the time, these small and big decisions did not really seem like much to him. Little did he know, they would have such a big impact on characters in the play, but also an impact on our society today. We use Romeo and Juliet as a guide to learn from and we use it as a way to connect to our emotions. All the themes in the play help give our society a new way of thinking, and a new outlook on life. We can all learn something different from these two

Romeo and Juliet is a play that shows how intense relationships between two young people can be, this is shown in the love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other. Then how Reckless Romeo and Juliet are stating they would kill each other if anything were to happen to the other. Finally the grief they have when they learn that the other is dead causes them to kill themselves shows the final intensity of their love. Shakespeare is trying to caution quick love or love that is created in an instant and has no thought or reason behind it.

Romeo and Juliet is a play about decisions, and more importantly, about action which comes after the decisions. The play demonstrates how love and hate can impair the decision making process, which in turn creates foolish actions. The main characters make decisions based on hate or love, and the actions cause unforeseeable consequences. For all actions, there are consequences - and the more important the action is, the more serious the consequence. The actions in Romeo and Juliet were fuelled by hate.

In the choice of priorities, loyalty makes or breaks a relationship. In Romeo and Juliet, the loyalty shown by Romeo and Juliet ultimately provoked their death. The decision between family or relationship presented itself to Juliet when she was forced to chose between the two. In the choosing of her Romeo she defied her family's wishes and tradition. Juliet speaking against her parents in the issue of marrying Paris replies in,

Firstly, Love, Hate, Violence and Death is just few of the many themes that William Shakespeare explores in Romeo & Juliet. Romeo & Juliet are the original star-crossed lovers, distanced from each other due to the endless feud between their families. Though they are the least likely people to be with each other, they seem to defy everything their families stand for and learn to love one another. Love and conflict being the strongpoint of themes in the text, but of these themes are not as simple as they seem. William Shakespeare makes these themes more complexed and stretched out. Romeo and Juliet loved each other but were set up to die due to their families blind and ongoing conflict. Now think of these themes as a tree. Hate leading to conflict and love, Conflict and love leading to violence and death. Hate had cause both the conflict and the love between Romeo & Juliet and the endless feud between their families. Romeo had persuaded

Death. Action. Romance. The play ¨Romeo And Juliet¨ is a love tragedy by Shakespeare. Both Romeo’s and Juliet’s family are in a feud, but when Romeo and Juliet see each other, they immediately fall in love. They get married in secret the next day, but the marriage leads to Juliet’s death. Many people and things are the reasons why Juliet kills herself.

Romeo and Juliet, a classic play by William Shakespeare, is known to many as a tragedy. But what makes this play tragic? Audiences favor this story because of the emotions evoked from a tale of love that sees two young souls torn apart. However, Romeo and Juliet when under my own definition of tragedy, does not resemble a tragic play. While the death of Mercutio and the deaths of Romeo and Juliet seem tragic, the story does not show one failing when trying to reach their full potential, instead the audience sees a forbidden love and death as a result, which does not demonstrate tragedy. Instead, Romeo and Juliet face flaws from within their families and society, forcing them to stay apart due to conflict. While both Romeo and Juliet try to reach the goal of being together and fail, the flaws of others cause the conflict, not the flaws of themselves. My definition surrounds the idea that the flaws of oneself leads to his or her demise, meaning that the play misses a key characteristic of the definition of tragedy. Both characters seem to die a “tragic death,” however, their death can only be considered sad or upsetting, especially to the audience. This play instead consists of somber scenes that show aspects of a tragedy, but not enough to place this play in a tragic category in the classic definition or in my own definition because the flaws of the main characters do not cause the fall of the characters as they try to reach their full potential. If a character who fell as a