... live in a romantic allusion. Their families on the other hand, live in a world of deep hatred and violence. The recurring imagery system sets the mood of each scene and allows the audience to see the place of each character. The water and fire imagery in "Romeo and Juliet" makes the plot of Shakespeare's tragedy easier to understand and therefore more accessible to modern audiences. The film ... succeeds as an appropriation because it retains the values of its original context but still connects to its ... and mythological allusions and replaced them with references to contemporary socia...

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... a light heart and chose to make the beginning pleasant with a hint of danger. At the end of her essay Snyder also demonstrates the peculiarity of this type of Shakespearean tragedy. The events of a tragedy, she claims, characteristically played out produce a resultant that has a direct correlation to the actions of the character him/herself. In Romeo and Juliet, Snyder feels as though it is not so much the ... character that has caused his and her tragedies, but the environment around that that has lain ... the path of devastation, "In this unusual Shakespearean tragedy, it is not who ...

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