... Your goal in this assignment should be to familiarize (or refamiliarize) yourself with exactly what Shakespeare wrote so that you can observe what it is Zeffirelli has done with it. Shakespeare wrote almost no original plots. He used an English poetic retelling of an old Italian tale: Arthur Brooke ... magic conjuration with sexual intercourse. Act II: Scene 2 This is the famous "Balcony Scene," one of the most renowned in all of Shakespeare. But because of its romantic associations it is often misunderstood. Romeo's passion for Juliet is unambiguously erotic. To Elizabethans sexual desi...

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... the enormity of the tension, which is soon to erupt. This creates dramatic tension as the audience may think Juliet is going mad because previously Shakespeare portrayed Juliet as being such a gentle, innocent, obedient young character and now here she is ranting and raving on about how much she loves ... is now, they will not know how she is going to react when she finds out about Romeo slaying Tybalt and banishing. The audience may fear that Juliet may lose control and do something stupid, like commit suicide. A modern day audience would react differently, the secret marriage would be ...

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... of Romeo and Juliet. Some film versions, such as Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation entitled Romeo and Juliet, are just a basic interpretation of the Shakespeare original play. It doesn't stray from anything in the original version. Other films like Baz Luhrmann's 1996 interpretation, the one we have dealt with ... original Shakespearean language but presents the story in a very unconventional way. Then there are some films that don't use the original script that Shakespeare created. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins 1961 West Side Story is one such version. This particular film is a musi...

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... the enormity of the tension, which is soon to erupt. This creates dramatic tension as the audience may think Juliet is going mad because previously Shakespeare portrayed Juliet as being such a gentle, innocent, obedient young character and now here she is ranting and raving on about how much she loves ... is now, they will not know how she is going to react when she finds out about Romeo slaying Tybalt and banishing. The audience may fear that Juliet may lose control and do something stupid, like commit suicide. A modern day audience would react differently, the secret marriage would be ...

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... this moment that his adulation starts. His language becomes filled with religious reflections, and he compares Juliet's being to that of saintliness. In Act I Scene V, Shakespeare uses a sonnet for the first dialogue that Romeo and Juliet share; a sonnet has fourteen lies and ten syllables in each line. The rhyme scheme is structured ... entirety. The love they share at the end of the first act is that based on looks, beauty and idolisation, and for Romeo this is no longer an unrequited love as was his love for Rosaline. Although we are fully aware of Juliet's feelings for Romeo at the e...

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... could have occurred at the party, just to see Rosaline. Romeo states to Mercutio, Romeo's best friend, that he senses something to go wrong if he should attend the party: "I fear too early; for my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despised life ... , he would then be separated from Juliet because Tybalt would have murdered him. If Romeo had slain Tybalt, he would be executed because of the law that there should be no fighting between the Montagues and Capulet, and if there is,...

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... to his banishment. Romeo kills himself when he cannot be with the woman he loves, proving that love is a much stronger emotion than hate. Shakespeare shows us that the two passions of love and hate are similar. Typically thought of as opposite emotions, in Romeo & Juliet, they are two ... Laurence states as much: "Romeo: Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline. Friar Laurence: For doting, not for loving, pupil mine." (Shakespeare 743). Benvolio is convinced Romeo's love is easily replaced, and it is his idea that they should crash the Capulet's party where Rosaline will be, ... prove, to...

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... by our personal choice. A definition of fate would be a power which is believed to settle ahead of time how things will happen. William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, brings this question to the surface. Although fate seems to control what happens to Romeo and Juliet their choices contribute more ... that luck is what determines what happens. Yet, Shakespeare doesn't tell about the poor judgement that the two young teenagers use. He tries to make it seem that they had no choice in the matter. What really plays the biggest part in their death is not fate but the decisions ... party wh...

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... I have seen from a 16th century film to a modern film. I did not personally like Franco Zeferelli because it was boring and kept to William Shakespeare book of Romeo and Juliet. Franco did not use his imaginative mind to expand Williams's dialect but the scenery and how he placed the people was okay ... cannot stand by and watch Romeo stand down like a common coward. He draws his sword and challenges Tybalt. Romeo tries to stop the fight but to no avail -- Tybalt fatally wounds Mercutio. He dies cursing both families, "a plague on both your houses/They have made worms meat of me" (III.i.9...

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... many things. These things include fear, anticipation, hate, and, most importantly, love. The creativity based on love has produced many forms of art, one of which being theatre. Of plays, the majority presents love in at least one form. The famous play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, reflects the archetype of love ... , without first having love at first sight. After all, in most cases, two people will not even talk, if there is no initial attraction. The fact that Shakespeare recognizes this relationship and includes both of these forms of love greatly improves the effect of h...

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... view as she did. Adults may not always understand children as they seethings in different views. Adults have more experience than children.Experience alters their choices in how to act. Shakespeare's creation ofthe conflict in this play, between Juliet and the adults, demonstrates hisunderstanding the young and olds various views on topics and how thismisunderstanding may result in betrayal. Immaturity and ... uncaring parent is shown between Heathcliff and his son Linton. Heathcliff did not even want his son for anything except enacting a part of his revenge. This is shown by Linton's f...

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Who was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? The controversial end scene of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" leaves many unanswered questions in the mind of the reader. One of which is "Who was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?". I believe that ... individual, however many contributed to it in a way. If Romeo and Juliet had not fallen in love than the events that occurred after they met would have never happened, but no one can control whether or not you fall in love and who with, which suggests fate was the over-riding influence in the play. Romeo and Juliet's pare...

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Romeo and Juliet is one of the best plays that Shakespeare wrote. In this essay I am going to analyse the behaviour of Juliet in Act 4 Scene 3 when Juliet says her last words before she takes the sleeping potion which ... all the worries she has. At the start of her speech she seems very worried as she says: Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me: Nurse! What should she do here? She was going ... that happened she then says that she would forbid it, as sh...

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