Romeo And Juliet Comparative Techniques

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

The two stories The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisby there are many similarities and differences. For example, they are both love stories. Which is a similarity. A example of a difference is Pyramus and Thisby never got to meet each other before their fate. Throughout the stories there are many more examples of similarities and differences.

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 was an inspired story by the myth “Pyramus and Thisbe”. Each story has many similarities and differences. An example of how these two stories are similar are how they had fallen in love with their families enemies and how much they were willing to sacrifice. An example of how these two stories are different are how each of them had died for the other person. There many similarities and differences between these two stories.

In the movie “Romeo and Juliet” they show a lot more emotion. In the beginning of the original movie when the Capulet put his thumb to his mouth and told the Montague it wasn't toward them they understood and didn't get bothered. The reaction in the modern version is different than the original movie because they reacted by getting super upset. They were so upset that they start to scream which causes commotion. This helps to show us the difference between the two versions and how one shows way more emotion than the other. Baz Luhrmann most likely put more emotion in the modern movie because in today's life styles people act and are more dramatic over anything and everything.

Romeo and Juliet; a classic tragedy of two lovers who cannot be together due to circumstances beyond their control. The story has been done by various movies, many of which change certain aspects in an attempt to breathe new life into this age old tale. In 1996, Director Baz Luhrman took the story and placed it in a modern setting where the two rival families are mafia families. This sounds like an interesting take on the story and it certainly was, but the movie turned out as a complete mess.

William Shakespeare’s famous ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was reinvented in 1996 as “Romeo + Juliet” and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. Luhrmann’s interpretation has turned Shakespeare’s traditional tale of a tragic love story into a modern and urbanised 20th century version.

No one knows when William Shakespeare was born but it is estimated around April 23, 1564 his work was known from all over the world and is still known to this very day and some of his history is still unknown of his past. Some examples of his work is Romeo and Juliet, By 1592, there is evidence William Shakespeare earned a living as an actor and a playwright in London and possibly had several plays produced. William Shakespeare got married on November 28, 1582 to a woman named Anne Hathaway who was 26 years old while William was only 18 years old, and had three children named Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet, who ended up dying at the age of 11 years old.

Romeo is a Montague, rival to the Capulet family. This is bad because he involves himself with Juliet who is a Capulet and they end up getting married. I decided to pick this character to analyze because I thought he was the most interesting to and is a main character. Personally, I do not identify with this character because he is not like who I am and he is completely not my type to date, but on the other hand I like his personality and heart. I like the way that he is a nicer guy who cares for who he dates, but I think that he cares too much to the point where he kills himself for a girl, and I wouldn’t want someone that clingy in my life. I believe that Romeo’s main attributes of himself are that he is

Watching “a pair of star-cross’d lovers [taking] their lives” provided a new twist to the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet. I saw Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare at The Media Theatre for the Performing Arts. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two young adults from opposing families, the Montagues and the Capulets, who fall in love. Their secret marriage results in a drastic plan that goes horribly wrong, leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. In the Shakespearean Tragedy Romeo and Juliet performed at Media Theatre, the play had a baffling plot, life-like characters, and adequate props that lacked vitality and originality.

One difference between the movie Romeo + Juliet and the story Romeo and Juliet is that the movie takes place in Verona beach, Florida, and story takes place in Verona, Italy. In the story Romeo and Juliet all of the story takes place in Verona Italy, but in the movie Romeo + Juliet it takes place in a city in the United States. An example is in the story in the prologue it reads, “Two households, both alike in dignity(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” that shows that the story is in Verona(Shakespeare). A reason the director could have put the story in Verona beach, Florida is that he wanted the scene for the movie to be a more familiar place rather than

Romeo and Juliet a play written by William shakespeare and Baz Luhrmann who recreated the story into film represents the idea of love and conflict. This response will attempt to present the two themes in the written text and film version. In the film and text they both recreate love and conflict in different ways. This has been shown in two different scenes, love was shown at at the balcony scene and the capulet party where as conflict has been presented at the fight scene at the petrol station between Mercuito, Tybalt and Romeo.In Luhrmann’s film in the first transformation he uses original shakespeare language with an modern day setting, changing it into an modern day setting helped people understand the scene more as

A strange tune my heart is playing, Today seems much known to me! Romeo breeze has been playing, All day long with my tresses, my skin, I love sitting in my balcony, Staring long the view outside, The moment of nothingness, The moment of be, That fragrance still lingers, Of thy love, thy romance, I feel nostalgic, melancholic heart, Today seems much known to me!

Romeo and Juliet. Both stories share similar plot points like a secret marriage and a love triangle

While many know who they hate and why, those that are hated may not know what it is that caused said hatred. This is because people are quick to judge and then hate because of their conclusion they have drawn without questioning their outcome through another perspective. Many do not reconsider why they hate that person, they just know that they do. People need to learn to reconsider their beliefs of a person because what they may believe can change from the perspectives of another. Hatred and grudges could all be resolved if people were willing to look at it from a different perspective