Romeo And Juliet Short Summary Conclusion

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.

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In many literary works, there are methods that authors use to make a story better. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, dramatic irony is the driving method. Dramatic irony is something in which characters do not know something, but the reader or audience knows what the true reality is. According to some researchers, “A staple of Elizabethan and Shakespearean drama was dramatic irony” (Halio 25). Furthermore some researchers also belive that dramatic irony is very prominent in the play, “ One of the more prominent literary devices in the play is irony” (Sauer 673). Romeo and Juliet, and also their friends and families face a lot of instances of dramatic irony in the story. Dramatic irony creates suspense and adds to

In Romeo and Juliet we learn how Shakespeare uses vivid language to build character and depth in their roles. Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and an actor with a great love for language. Shakespeare was of great importance when it came down to the moulding and developing of the English language. Shakespeare had such an immense love for language that he created neologisms that we use in everyday life. Some of these neologisms he created include words such as puke, lonely, bedroom, democracy etc. in the play he developed numerous characters that played incredibly believable roles. An example of how Shakespeare made his characters believable was Tybalt, who spoke only forty lines in the entire play. Though he

In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare explores the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Set in the Northern Italian cities of Verona and Mantua, tells the story of Romeo and Juliet and their love for each other, even though their families are enemies. For generations the Capulets and Montagues have been at each others necks over everything, but this does not stop the two star-crossed lovers. Meeting one another at a masquerade ball and falling in love overnight. These two lovers do countless things behind their parents back and keep numerous amounts of secrets from their loved ones. Making multiple decisions without thinking of the consequences leads them to their tragic ending. So,

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare has been read in schools around the world ever since schools have existed. One of the characters in the play is Friar Lawrence, who makes many influential decisions that affect the story. Friar Lawrence marrying Romeo and Juliet causes more problems than it solves. Also, Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet to fake her death is one of the worst decisions in the play that leads to terrible tragedy. Finally, Friar Lawrence had the chance to save Juliet from killing herself after she awoke, but he gave absolutely no effort. Shakespeare used Friar Lawrence as a major driving force in the tragedy.

Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed teenage lovers. They are from opposing families; Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They meet at a party at the home of the Capulet’s and fall in love at first sight. That night Romeo comes to Juliet’s balcony and he watches her for awhile. Finally, he calls out to her, and they talk, him on the ground her in her balcony. After talking they decide to get married. Romeo rushes off to make the arrangement for their wedding. Only days after the wedding Romeo is banished from Verona for the murder of Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and only days after that Romeo and Juliet take their own lives. Romeo did first believing Juliet had died, however, she was only in a death-like sleep. She woke up and saw her beloved Romeo dead and stabbed herself with his dagger. Although they chose to take their own lives I believe Romeo’s friend Mercutio is most to blame for the two lovers deaths.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, takes place in Verona, Italy where two star-crossed lovers from rival families meet and fall in love. The protagonists, Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague have to keep their love a secret as their families are sworn enemies, which leads to a series of tragic events. The Nurse and Friar Lawrence act as mentors for Juliet and Romeo and strongly influence their decisions as they try and make their relationship succeed despite the tension between their families. In Romeo and Juliet, it is shown that there can be deadly consequences if mentors interfere, as seen when the Nurse and Friar Lawrence approve of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet, when they organize and conduct the marriage between the two

“Romeo and Juliet” is a dramatic romance story that is full of love, hate, secrets, and lies. In Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets and the Montagues have a rivalry, a death penalty placed by the prince is threatened if the families have another brawl. At a Capulet party, Romeo and his friend, Mercutio sneak in, and he meets Juliet. They fall in love, and become married in secret, but Juliet is forced by her father to marry Paris after Romeo killed Tybalt, who is Juliets cousin. To avoid marrying Paris, Juliet fakes her death and Romeo thinks Juliet is honestly dead. He goes to her tomb and drink a potion that killed him almost instantly.When Juliet wakes up, she actually kills herself over the grief over Romeo being dead. In William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, Friar Lawrence is ultimately to blame for the deaths of the protagonists, by cause of Friar encouraged them to secure their love, he neglected to inform both parties if his plan to fake Juliet’s death, and he left Juliet when she was extremely emotional.

The play Romeo & Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy and is written by the playwright William Shakespeare. The story describes the love of Romeo and Juliet, who are from the Montague and Capulet families respectively. Unfortunately, the Montague and Capulet families are in a family feud and completely despise one another. However, Romeo and Juliet are still determined to be with each other and decide to secretly marry with the help of Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s nurse. An unexpected street fight results in the banishment of Romeo from Verona, just hours after his wedding ceremony. Juliet is then suddenly forced by her parents to marry someone else by the name of Paris. At a loss of what to do, Juliet seeks the aid of Friar Lawrence, who develops an extremely detailed and risky plan in order to reunite her with Romeo in Mantua. Not everything goes according to this plan though, and the ending is a horrible catastrophe because of Romeo’s quick and rash actions. Therefore, hasty and reckless actions made based on one’s emotions can lead to tragedy.

Romeo and Juliet were lovers from different world whose love was star crossed. Juliet last name was Capulet, while Romeo is a Montague. These families are in a feud that has existed since ancient times. They meet by chance at a party hosted by the Capulets. Through their “true” love of only about five days, they lose the lives of six people as of result of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet were two teenage lovers from seperate families who were not the best of friends, these families were enemies. Unfortunately, for the families (Montague's who Romeo belong to and Capulet's who Juliet belong to) the two teenagers had very strong feelings for each oter which eventually led to love. Romeo and Juliet love was no ordinary love, infact they had to hide their relationship due to the conflicts their families had and only communicate with each other at night . Not luckily, Juliet's parents wanted her to be maried to Paris, bu she was already secretly married to Romeo. This eventually led to the death tragic death of them.

Romeo and Juliet is a play made by William Shakespeare in the time of the renaissance. A story of a young boy and girl, a tragic love story. Romeo lived in the fair city of Verona where he was of the montague family with the rival family the Capulets. Romeo and his cousin Benvolio one day were approached by a servant asking if they could read and tell him who is on a party list and he handed them the list Romeo's friend Mercutio was on the list. He told the servant what he needed to know and went on his way, later Romeo and Benvolio go to the capulet party with their friend mercutio. Romeo during the start of the party was depressed because his crush rosaline didn't like him, but then he saw Juliet of the capulet house. Romeo and Juliet kissed twice at the party, and afterwards talked in the capulet garden. They agreed to get married the following day. After the marriage Romeo went to find benvolio and mercutio and tell them of the news. He stumbled upon the fight between mercutio and tybalt Juliet’s cousin. Romeo tried to stop the fight but only ended up getting his friend hurt and killed. Romeo then killed tybalt for the murder of his friend. Romeo was then exiled. Juliet heard of the sentence and attempted to kill herself. she was presented with a plan that would help her to run away with Romeo. Juliet then faked her death, and Romeo got word she was

Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a party. But they come from families which hate each other. They are sure they will not be allowed to marry. But the helped by Friar Laurence, they married in secret instead. Unfortunately, before their wedding night Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt in a duel, and in the morning he was exiled. If he returns to the city, he will be put to death. Juliet’s parents told her she must marry Paris. Her parents don’t know that she is already married. She refuses in the beginning, but later agrees because she plans to fake her death and escape to be with Romeo forever with the help of Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence designs the plan. He gives Juliet a sleeping potion. She appears to be dead and was put in a tomb. Romeo

The play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare is about a forbidden love between a thirteen year old girl (Juliet) and a sixteen year old boy (Romeo). Both of them belong to very rich families. Juliet belongs to the Capulets and Romeo to the Montages. The Montagues and the Capulets have an extreme feud going on not letting Romeo and Juliet marry, they aren’t allowed to marry therefore there are many fights causing death among the families for eg. Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet.