... them. In Baz Luhrman's production, the acting is extremely stylised and the actors appear as caricatures. The exception is Romeo and Juliet. The two young and beautiful actors that play the roles of Romeo and Juliet do so very sincerely. They appear as genuine, passionate lovers in a world of violence and hatred without reason. Romeo and Juliet seem alive. Their love seems real. Lord Capulet is characterized ... highly abusive and unreasonable. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, Lord Capulet strikes her and denies her any choice in the matter and Lady Capulet offers no support to her da...

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... by Susan Snyder, she speculates that the play of Romeo and Juliet, dubbed in its entirety a tragedy, begins in fact as a comedy. Never having considered this notion before, and now considering, it is very clear early on in the play that the characters speak and act in a lighthearted, humorous, manner. It isn't ... comedy. Comedic plot is more fickle in its ultimate concluding results, while the events of a tragedy are irreversible, "they will never happen again, and one by one they move the hero closer to the end of his own personal time." (ibid) His own personal time ending is something...

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... of classical language after being deprived of it through the duration of the book. John, in response to Lenina, calls upon memories of Romeo and Juliet as well as other plays by Shakespeare. "Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice - (144), John is marveled at the qualities in Lenina not even thought of ... to hate -- many of the concepts in the literature that most affect him, means. 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. Helmholtz...

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