Romeo and Juliet- Gcse Level

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.

The previous passage was Romeo describing Juliet as beautiful as the sun, and professing his love for Juliet . At this point, Romeo is in the garden speaking to Juliet on the balcony. He refers to Juliet as the light of his world, and uses colorful imagery to describe her looks. This is one another example of the false love that exists. In addition to this quote, the narrator of the play describes Romeo and Juliet as “star-crossed lovers”. Another quote by Juliet describing Romeo in a sexual, lustful way is as follows;

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

There are three characters in the story of Romeo and Juliet that take some and most of the blame on the death of the two Romeo and Juliet. Two of the characters take some of the blame while the third character takes all of the blame. The two characters that take some of the blame are Lady Capulet And Lord Capulet. Lady Capulet is married to Lord Capulet and have a daughter named Juliet. The third person that takes most of the blame for their death is not a person at all. It is fate. These three characters are the reason why Romeo and Juliet take their lives. ("DBQ: Romeo and Juliet: Who's to Blame". Doc.B,A,D)

In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare tells of two families that have a huge grudge. A boy named Romeo and a girl named Juliet fall in love with each other and die in the end. In this play, Shakespeare uses a lot of figurative language throughout. He uses language like metaphors, similes and personification to describe the scenes and characters.

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely known for being the greatest writer in the english language (William Shakespeare par. 1). William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet tells the story between two star crossed lovers, who fall in love despite their families hating each other. The Capulet’s are to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of the feud between the two families, misunderstanding Juliet’s feelings, and the urge to punish Romeo for Tybalt’s death.

To begin with to the statement made earlier about the claim that the Montague's and Capulet's were responsible for the death of their children. If both families didn’t have an ancient grudge bot4h of the children wouldn’t have died. The both families had an ongoing grudge that didn’t allow them to be married to one family to the other. In document A, “Two Households”, it states in the third line “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.” Proving that both families had or have a grudge and that made the turn into a war. Making both households have a fight. Finally, if anyone had any contact with the opposing family they will be killed probably making Romeo and Juliet very scared to be together.

Have you ever blamed faith for things, without looking at the human actions? In this DBQ we will discuss about some of the human's actions ,in the “Romeo and Juliet” story by Shakespeare, that led to the poor death of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by human actions because of four people: Rosaline, the Friar Lawrence, the Caplet and the Montague. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Rosaline. If Rosaline would have fell in love with Romeo and not have been so stubborn then Romeo wouldn't have been sad at the beginning (Act 1, scene 1-5).

Romeo and Juliet is a very tragic story of two young teens who fall in love, but in the end, they die because their love is forbidden. Many people ask, “Who is to blame for their deaths?” Many people caused problems that just caused even more problems. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s unfortunate deaths could have been prevented if it weren't for a few people. The people responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are the families at the start of the feud, Lord Capulet’s servant, and Tybalt.

Romeo approaches Juliet with the metaphor, “"If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." Romeo acknowledges Juliet as a “shrine” stating that she is heavenly and holy and that he pays homage to Juliet revealing that his feelings are not only physical but spiritual as well. Juliet rejects Romeo’s advances by stating ‘palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss’ implying that his touch is all that is required and that there is no need for him to kiss her hand. There is also use of the word “holy” which is mentioned often in their conversation indicating to the reader that during the time that Shakespeare wrote about, religious beliefs were valued immensely. There is mention of the word “sinful” in comparison to love. Whilst the word is not only used as a use of persuading Juliet to kiss Romeo, “sinful” can also be uses as a consideration of the feuding families. This helps the reader to acknowledge that both Romeo and Juliet do not know the consequences of their “sin” yet which again references to the prologue where the pair of lovers are stated to be “star-crossed”. Therefore, by using religious lexis, Shakespeare makes the reader aware of the emphasis of the spiritual and pure love.

Shakespeare uses detailed examples to draw clear images of his characters for the audience. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two rival families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo struggles because he is blinded by his love for Juliet and will do anything, even risk death, to see Juliet. Shakespeare uses examples in the story to portray Romeo as an impulsive and passionate character. He demonstrates that he is passionate and impulsive by his inner thoughts and feelings, his actions, and how others view him.

Romeo labels his feelings towards Juliet as “love”, although he has not gotten the opportunity to learn about her personality. This indicates that what he feels about her was entirely formed by her physical beauty rather than genuine feelings. Evidently, sexual desires seemed to be his ulterior motive for marrying her, instead of committing to love, care, and cherish her till death do them apart.

Romeo is an Italian name meaning ‘pilgrim to Rome’, a pilgrim being a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. Throughout the play, forces of religion are often used to portray love and sexual desires. During the shared sonnet between the lovers, Romeo states: “O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.” (1.v.102-103). Their resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.

The theme beauty of love is mostly found in this passage, it shows us how Romeo can forget about a person he claims to be in love with so easily with just one look at Juliet. Shakespeare creates a dramatic effect

In Germany, 1938 the streets were busy, loud, and crowded. Romeo, a tall and handsome gentleman squeezes his way through the crowd to catch the bus. After the struggles of the crowded streets he makes it to the bus. Inside the crowded bus there was only one seat left for Romeo and it was beside his co-worker and possible crush Juliet. Romeo approaches the seat with a slight nervousness and a fast beating heart and sits. After sitting Romeo greets Juliet with a big but nervous smile and says “Good Morning”, Juliet also replies with a “Good Morning”. Romeo and Juliet started to have a conversation about the business of the streets and their works. Suddenly the topic of their conversation shifts into very political topic after the bus passes by a Nazi flag. Romeo says “Did you hear about what happened in last night”, Juliet responds with a “No”, so Romeo says “last night there was a raid in a Jewish store district every windows were broken and every Jewish store was looted”. Juliet says” Ohh, what a tragedy, how can anybody do such a thing” Romeo says “you know what’s the weird part about it, they only attacked stores owned by Jews, and German owned stores were untouched” Juliet replies back “what terrible tragedies have been happening since Hitler came to power”. As the bus starts wo empty, Romeo and Juliet arrives and their stop and enters their office. After a year things have gotten worse for Germany and their Jewish citizens, many were forced to leave their homes, give