(Act 1 scene1 line 159)). ... In Act 1 scene 2 the Capulets" servant, apparently illiterate, happens upon Romeo and Benvolio, and not knowing who they are, asks them to assist him in reading the names of the guest-list for Capulet's party- where fate would have Romeo meet Juliet. ... The fact that Romeo and Juliet are from feuding households in itself is an ironic twist of Fate. ... (Act 1 scene 5 line 117) and Juliet " My only love sprung from my only hate!" ... When romeo and Juliet are about to be married (Act 2 scene 6 ), Friar Lawrence reminds the audience of the role of fate (lines ...

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So begins Baz Luhrmann's production of Shakespeare's beloved play, "Romeo and Juliet," from the famous opening line of "Two Households both alike in dignity.." to the tragic end, the viewer is whisked away into thedepths?... Casting includes Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Juliet as well as great performances by John Leguizamo (Tybalt) and, Harold Perrineau (Mercutio). Danes brings life to the character of Juliet and reaches far beyond the subservient stereotype of most Elizabethan characters with her ambition and assertion, although she sometimes sounds like a school...

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Romeo and Juliet - The Betrayal of the Adults to Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet becausethey are unable to understand her. ... He fails tounderstand Romeo and Juliet's love for each other. ... TheFriar believes that Juliet and Romeo's love is temporary and advises Romeo"Wisely and slow. ... Juliet is Independent, Courageous, and Heroic in Romeo and Juliet After reading William Shakespeares' Romeo and Juliet, you have abetter understanding of the characters then when we are first introducedto them. ... Love and Hate in Romeo and...

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Romeo and Juliet! ... Shakespeare uses the line "Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle- after Romeo's banishment from Verona. ... I dreamt my lady came and found me dead- Romeo and Juliet imagine Romeo dead in a tomb. ... Romeo says this whilst in the chapel with Juliet. ... Reading this quote makes you see how she is feeling, like been in a shut cardboard box and at any moment the bottom opens and you fall down to hell. ...

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In the play Romeo and Juliet', this theme is love. ... This is especially important when dealing with love, as in Romeo and Juliet'. ... In Act 1 scene 1, Romeo even says here's much to do with hate, but more with love, showing great insight in describing the feud between the families as a form of love, after all there is a fine line between love and hate. ... Juliet is meant to be accompanying Paris and Romeo would be killed if discovered. ... A lot can also be conveyed to the audience through costume, light and sound, which have to be imagined when merely reading the play. ...

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It will then be obvious that fate plays the major role in Romeo and Juliet's tale. ... This fact is shown, in a line from the chorus before the story even begins, Capulet's, Juliet's father, hesitance for Juliet to be wed to Paris, Benvolio and Romeo's help to the servant and Romeo's dream prior to the Capulet party. ... When they assist him in reading they discover: QUOTE OF LISTS OF CAPULET"S PARTY Here, the servant has asked for Romeo and Benvolio to aid him in reading the list that Old Capulet has created for his party. ... This is shown when Tybalt, Juliet...

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Juliet from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," and Ophelia from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," are both portrayed as naive and childlike, which ultimately brings about their downfall. ... However, once she meets Romeo she begins to make her own decisions, which happen to be all the wrong ones. ... She puts everything on the line just to be with him, which proves just how childish and immature she is. ... "When such criticism explores Juliet, it is often influenced by her young age of fourteen, reading her as little more than a child - naive, immature, inexperienced.....

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Reading Shakespeare is wonderful because his plays hold a large worldview. In this play, Romeo and Juliet, he presents a big variety of opposites. ... It is first given in the chorus that Romeo and Juliet are against fate, in line 6 of the sonnet it says "A pair of star-crossed lovers takes their life". The key of this line is "Star-crossed" which literally means "against the stars". ... Those who battle against Romeo and Juliet's love never win; but both Romeo and Juliet did not in a concrete way neither. ...

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He concocts a plan to reunite Juliet with Romeo in Mantua. ... Romeo hears only that Juliet is dead. ... Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, does indeed experience a love of such purity and passion that he kills himself when he believes that the object of his love, Juliet, has died. ... Rosaline, of course, slips from Romeo's mind at first sight of Juliet. ... One must ascribe Romeo's development at least in part to Juliet. ...

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"I'm through with Romeo and Juliet and boy meets girl, and on to Macbeth and man kills beast." ... These being Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge. ... Shakespeare was given new meaning and re-invented again with the younger generation through Romeo and Juliet, taking away the perception of Shakespeare as being a boring English class siting and reading through plays, and the idea of a musical film was re-invented in Moulin Rouge. ... This factor is highly relevant in Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet. ... This can also be applied to Romeo and Juliet in more that one w...

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Perhaps, people are just reading and watching for entertainment rather than moral lessons. ... Most movies and shows about women contain a plot line where woman's life revolves around a man. ... Another example of dependency on men by women is in Romeo and Juliet. From the time she meets Romeo, Juliet is dependent on their love and nothing else matters. In the very last scene when Romeo dies of poison, Juliet kills herself as well not seeing any point in living without him. ...

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Whether the characters look as expected by all or not seems almost irrelevant so long as they retain their relationships and attitudes throughout the film, in line with the book. ... This idea has been recently portrayed in a film version of Romeo and Juliet, where the action takes place in the present day, with the use of guns as opposed to swords and the protagonists getting around in cars. ... What is being presented is still a film version of Romeo and Juliet; it is just being presented in a different way. ... Even in the former, it is a matter of opinion; it is a question of where the ...

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Comparison of film to playwright in Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, was written in a time period that differs greatly from today. ... Due to the growing mental gap between the youth of today and the Shakespearean dialect, director Baz Luhrmann creates the modern day film version of Romeo and Juliet. ... The textual version of Romeo and Juliet is altered to give a new understanding to the modern world via the film version; mainly in the opening scene through use of modern scenery, language, and armory. ... When reading through the play, the reader may find it ...

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Upon a closer inspection, the popular musical, one would begin to realize that the production is actually an operatic form of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... As previously stated, non-theatre-goers were influenced to this modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by way of film. ... Romeo and Juliet is a love story that expresses how powerful love can actually be. ... Upon reading reviews from his earlier works, it was clear that audiences favored his use of the complex components of the music he created. ... Every lyric line of George's song "Finishing the Hat" is an incom...

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Turning from horror to incense after the death of his mother and another unpleasant encounter with lower caste twins undergoing "death conditioning-, John attempts to liberate the workers in line for their daily ration of the euphoric, hallucinogenic panacea for all things unpleasant, soma. ... John, in response to Lenina, calls upon memories of Romeo and Juliet as well as other plays by Shakespeare. ... When being read Romeo and Juliet, Helmholtz could not help from laughing hysterically at the Juliet's plea to her mother to delay the marriage to Paris because of the death of Tybalt. .....

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"Disclosure" (Crichton, 1994), a fictional account of a male worker's experiences of workplace sexual harassment perpetrated by a woman line manager, has attracted much feminist criticism. ... Wise and Stanley report that after the press identified the "office Romeo" (the over-sexed man engaging in normal male responses to a sexual situation) they also unearthed the "office Juliet" (a mature woman, experienced in sexual goings-on and with an eye for shy, nervous and sexually inexperienced males). ... Morgan briefly reflects upon his own personal experiences of harassment perpetrated b...

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I mean she got married at age 16 it sounds like a modern day Romeo and Juliet sort of thing to do. ... As I read on I couldn't stop reading it. Usually I enjoy writing much more than I do reading but with this book, I just couldn't put it down. ... It was unique and took me away from the regular story line feeling like in A Walk. ...

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His others works of art included Othello, Julius Cesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Mac Beth to name a few. ... This plot line is rather normal but Shakespeare does mix it up with twist of the family connection. In my readings of Renaissance material, I have not come across a playwright dealing with inner-family problems to his magnitude. But this plot line is borrowed from the bible. ...

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How can reading works such as Romeo and Juliet encourage teen sex? ... Similar to William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Connell's story depicts what would happen if humans start to devalue the meaning of life and the thin line humans walk that borders insanity versus humanity. ... By reading books like The Most Dangerous Game, students can learn to assess the true value of life and grasp the fragility of the tightrope of humanity. ... Students need an opportunity to learn how to love reading books. ... Truly, though, studies prove that reading can l...

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The basic story line is about a man who is betrayed by those closest to him. ... After reading Shakespeare's, "Othello" I concluded that it could be the most tragic play Shakespeare ever wrote. ... In my critique I believe the play to be better than "Romeo and Juliet," because it touches on the subjects that emotional stir its audience....

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Salinger even throw Holden foreshadowed a little in the line "I didn't know then that the goddam hotel was full of perverts and morons." ... Salinger illustrates a full blown tragedy with a 15 year old boy; it sounds a lot like the classic we read last year Romeo and Juliet. ... I really enjoyed reading and rereading this book to find embedding symbols. ...

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Where creative approaches to teaching and learning had the biggest impact and the greatest improvements shown was in schools that were considered to be in challenging circumstances: "(schools) with a higher than average proportion of pupils eligible for free schools meals, low attainment on entry and high rates of pupil mobility ̶ showed the greatest improvements in: pupils' ability to draw discerningly on a range of data and work collaboratively to solve problems; their reading and writing; their speaking and listening; and their personal development.... Even if pupils use the sa...

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