... set a clear picture of what is happening. The language in both films is from the same era, the 16th Century. In Zeffirelli's version the language fits the setting and costumes and the time period the movie portrays. Romeo and Juliet are dressed in period costumes of the 16th century and the castle and town are portrayed, as they are believed to have ... looked in that time period. Seeing 16th Century dress and setting, the viewer expects to hear the proper language spoken for that time period. In the balcony scene, when Juliet says, "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" The manneris...

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... , a fair part of the play uses all this dull language creating imagery of death. Talking to one of his friends he uses over exaggerated words to explain how he thinks he feels about Juliet. It is typical teenagers, being very nave talking disorderly nonsense. The audience would have looked at Romeo as very immature and think that he didn't know what he was talking ... might have just known he was inexperienced at this type of thing. "Love is a smoke made with the fumes of sighs - When addressing Juliet Romeo's language when talking about love is completely different and isn't the immatur...

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... and its rhyming scheme is a,b,a,b The second quatrain is spoken by Juliet c,b,c,b ,Both Romeo and Juliet speak the third quatrain d,e,d,e and final quatrain is spoken by Juliet and then finally Romeo. Romeo and Juliet both have b's in their quatrain. The abab, cbcb rhyme scheme indicates Romeo and Juliet are intertwined, through the repetition of "b" lines. The religious language demonstrates the sincerity of emotions as love and religion are intertwined like the love of Romeo and Juliet. The "Balcony scene" shows Romeo ... 's passion for Juliet, which is sexual as ... ...

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... 't interrupt Romeos interests in Juliet, and as Juliet takes a break from the dance, he sees his opportunity, and ceases it. He pulls Juliet behind the pillar he is hiding behind and tries to make Juliet listen by pouring his heart out, his language is like poetry, everything he says seems to flow, even when Juliet questions and dismisses his actions, but Romeo keeps coming back with better and more enticing speech, fro ... more examples of this similarity, in hindsight the marriage and the closing scene. Their love is seen as real and pure, this is helped by the use of language they use...

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... her family does not know it, she is disobeying the wishes of her family. At the party Juliet and Romeo meet for the first time and kiss. This starts to change her mind about marriage, not to Paris, but to Romeo. When they meet, with their language tell us (the audience) that they are in love. Again, fate intervenes here; she could have fallen for any ... Nurse they would most probably been separated form each other by their corresponding families. However, their is a key plan to aid Romeo and Juliet that she does not know about, the plan to fake Juliet's death with a poison so that Rome...

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Romeo and Juliet: In scene 1, Romeo is acting very strange and is in love with a girl called Rosaline, but she doesn't love him back that's why Romeo is feeling sad and depressed. Romeo uses oxymoron and lots of romantic language. "O brawling love o loving hate" "A right good mark-man! And she's the fair I love". In Benvolio's conversation with Montague, they are talking about Romeo's strange behaviour. Montague asks Benvolio who started ... be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy". This acceptance of love brings maturity to Romeo. In act 2 scene 2, Romeo and Juliet decide to marry each other....

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... this scene reveals the results of past activities and begins a series of tragic misunderstandings and fatal reactions.   Transformations occuring amongst characters and their relationships with one another and the tone of the play are revealed in this scene.   Through language, Shakespeare presents these changes as well as foreshadowing the eventual tragedy Romeo and Juliet's death.   From this point on in the ... scenes are of extreme actions, mishap and tragedy.   The "star-crossed lovers" cannot escape their fate. One of the many transformations presented in this scene is that of...

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... Leonardo Dicaprio? As time goes on, it keeps getting modernized. Written in the 1590's, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is still a popular play today. Leonardo is only one of the reasons why it's still popular. Romeo and Juliet is still popular today because of its immense death toll, timeless characters, and colorful language. We as human beings are enticed by death. It's just our nature. It makes ... us happy to suffer mercilessly at the hands of the enemy. Romeo and Juliet fulfills that need completely. In the play one half of the ... family in trouble, he leaves out no det...

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... this play is presented, the themes of the play are so strong and universal that the meaning is never lost in the translation. Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet has been described as an original, post-modern 90's version of Shakespeare's tragic love story. Set in Miami, this adaptation uses authentic Shakespearean language. This relentlessly paced MTV-style film is an updating of the ... tale. It uniquely combines modern day setting and characters withtheoriginallanguage. The main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are transformed into young Miami teenagers of the nineties. Even thou...

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... Montague's. Examine the characters of Romeo and Tybalt and how much is reflected in the behaviour and language up to and including Act 3 Scene 1. From the time of the Greeks, tragedy has been one of the main themes of writers. Usually in a tragedy play the main character has one main weakness or flaw, which leads to their downfall. However in Romeo and Juliet when both of them die at ... involved with the relationship for example when Tybolts says "draw your sword and fight" to Mrcutio he is getting involved with the relationship "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy centralising on the major ...

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... be a fight later on. The fifth event was the moment Romeo and Juliet talked for the first time. In this event, the pace was slow and the mood turns from angry to love which is also another contrast. Romeo persuades Juliet to kiss him using religious language such as 'sin'. In this event they kissed and they are sure that they love each other. In this event ... , Romeo also shows that he has more confident in loving. He uses religious language to try and persuade Juliet, so she doesn't think it's a sin to kiss him ... . The last event in this scene which was the moment Romeo & Juliet...

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... saying this, to take love into his own hands and to be decisive. Despite Romeo's great declaration of love for Roasline, his feelings are actually short lived, as shown the moment when he sees Juliet. Romeo is excited at first sight describing her as, "Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!". This language is in direct contrast to how he speaks of Rosaline ... . Rather than objectifying Juliet as he does with Rosaline, he holds Juliet in amazement. "Did my heart love till now? For swear it sight! For I ne"er saw true beauty till this night." With this speech Rosaline is now forgott...

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... plays the biggest part in their death is not fate but the decisions of the two adolescents. Many choices contributed to the end of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo's choice to go to the Capulet party where he met Juliet was one example. Romeo even suspected that there would be consequences of the party, yet he ignored his feelings. "I fear, too early. For my mind misgives some ... the term of a despised life, close in my breast, by some vile forfeit of untimely death". Romeo at this point in the play is very immature this could be what is responsible for his actions. It is shown in his language....

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... him through the emotions one would experience in an entire lifetime. The individuals possessed by >ideal= love are not the only ones who are affected by it. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence=s first reaction to Romeo=s drastic change was shock: AHoly Saint Francis, what a change is here!/.../Young men=s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.@(2.3.69, 71 ... to seal their love despite the turmoil between the families. However, the Friar warns Romeo that Athese violent delights have violent ends@ (2.6.9) and he tells him to Alove moderately@(2.6.14). Clearly, the F...

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... a master, a keeper more than a mother. Juliet does not seem to mind this and she goes along being an obedient innocent young girl. The nurse seems to be more of a mother to Juliet; she cares for her and knows everything about Juliet's life: 'I can tell her age unto an hour.' Juliet seems more relaxed around the nurse and she uses more informal language, she can tell the nurse what ... she really thinks and feels: 'It is an honour that I dream not of.' We could get the ... sudden entrance of the nurse causes tension, as the audience do not know if Romeo and Juliet are going to be caught...

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... a master, a keeper more than a mother. Juliet does not seem to mind this and she goes along being an obedient innocent young girl. The nurse seems to be more of a mother to Juliet; she cares for her and knows everything about Juliet's life: 'I can tell her age unto an hour.' Juliet seems more relaxed around the nurse and she uses more informal language, she can tell the nurse what ... she really thinks and feels: 'It is an honour that I dream not of.' We could get the ... sudden entrance of the nurse causes tension, as the audience do not know if Romeo and Juliet are going to be caught...

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... elaborate plan to stop the marriage to Paris and get Romeo and Juliet back together. Romeo receives no notice of this plan and because of accidents; mistimings and malevolent fate things turn out for the worst. Romeo and Juliet kill themselves and only in their deaths the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues is resolved. True love can never survive ... the screen is the prologue and it is in black and white direct opposites and it is also contrasting colours to symbolise either Montague or Capulet. The news headlines also echo the prologue, which is repeated twice to give the audie...

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... Comparison Essay I will compare Zeferelli's version of Romeo and Juliet to the modern version of Romeo and Juliet staring Leonardo Dicaprio, and Claire Danes. Romeo and Juliet is old but is really famous around the world. Romeo and Juliet is a play, written by a famous play write named William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born April 23rd, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon near London, England to Mary Arden and John Shakespeare. William's family was one of ... genius. His understanding of people, his skill with words, his sense of drama "what would please the people. His characters are...

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Irony In Act Three of ROMEO AND JULIET Throughout Romeo and Juliet there is a great deal of irony. Scene three contains ironic events like the death of Mercutio, Romeo's reaction to his banishment and Lady Capulet's joyful news. This book also contains examples of dramatic irony like Tybalt's challenge and Juliet's engagement to Paris. Dramatic irony is an example of figurative language where we, the readers, know something that a character does not ... - No better a term than this: thou art a villain? (IIIi,61-2), but Tybalt doesn't know of Romeo's marriage to his cousin. The irony of this sc...

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... I read or watch "R&J", it seems as if it is the first time.... There is a reason the classical production Romeo and Juliet is the most enduring, most often performed and adapted, most often recalled and remembered, play. There is such depth and breadth to the story, to the language and to these characters that we all think we know so well. What a challenge it must have been then for ... script lacks for/in portraying the protagonists. But on the whole the actors understood the role thoroughly. The play is based on worldwide known and ever-topical Shakespeare's "Romeo& Juliet". The story...

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... side. We also see a caring side to him here because he obviously wants his guests to have a good time tonight which is obvious in his language and the things he says. I can shows this by; "Welcome gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you. Ah, my mistresses, which of you all ... 'rest gall." This shows to the audience that they'll expect sometime in the future for Tybalt to challenge Romeo and get revenge for this intrusion amd dis-honour on his family. The next movement is between Romeo and Juliet with their first encouters of each other. Rom...

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... to fuel the audiences interest but it provides a useful prescience into the remainder of the text. In this instance, the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet does both. A rousing duel between the two rival families captures the audiences attention and carefully chosen techniques help to prepare the audience for the rest of the play. The mood in the opening scene mirrors the mood to ... his flowery, baroque proposals- "out of her favour where I am in love." Conversely, when he meets Juliet, his depression is lifted. This is reflected in his language - "It is the east and Juliet is the sun."...

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... thou stick'st Up to the ears- (1.4.40-43). Here, Mercutio is telling Romeo that he thinks Romeo's love is, essentially, a heap of worthless emotion and that he, Mercutio, will do whatever he can to draw Romeo out of the pile of it that he has gotten himself stuck in. Mercutio's language is so vulgar because he views it as the most blunt way to ... draw Romeo out of his shell, and he is also used, in a sense, as a sort of comic relief similar to that of the Nurse or Friar ... death knell, predicting the further horrors that are to come about later in the play, because the plague he spea...

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... to take charge, saying, "If love be rough with you, then be rough with love." This shows how Mercutio simply cannot understand Romeo's love for Juliet, and that he sees his love as simply a confusion of emotions. Mercutio is very independent and free. He does not understand how someone could want or need anyone or anything else in his life to fulfill it.Mercutio ... , Mercutio is being his regular, quick-witted self. He jokes around with his language, but he takes it too far as he deliberately annoys Tybalt by doing things like mistaking meanings of words on purpose, like in Act III Scen...

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... lose interest rather quickly. The same may happen for Shakespeare. I believe there are many advantages of watching the movie of Romeo and Juliet over interpreting the book. Body language and voice tones are a major factor in determining a character's traits. In Act II, the scene in which Mercutio is teasing the Nurse was quite the opposite if how I had imagined ... with little actions in the video that would take five plus lines to show verbally. The video gives you a better sense of what you are reading and an easier way to interpret the Elizabethan language. Although a challenging bo...

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