... is imperative to modernize the prologue, in order for viewers to fully comprehend the film's plot. Any misperception would leave viewers confused, and not emotionally involved. He is able to accomplish this through the use of dialogue, written text, and visual images. In order to reach modern audiences, Luhrmann has to be inventive in his filmmaking techniques. Therefore, he integrates modern- ... day media language. By adding news media, and displaying selected pieces of text onscreen, he is able to intensify the romantic teen tragedy. He turns Shakespeare's original play into a distingu...

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... authority of man. The degree of violence is to the greater extreme in ""Romeo Must Die"" with the use of powerful machine guns and bombs, as opposed to the use of swords in ""Romeo and Juliet"". This change reflects that my audience requires a greater amount of action and suspense to feel satisfaction with a text. It also displays the change in context of the pieces, as swords were ... contexts are vastly different. The techniques I chose were deliberate in attempting to use the ones that would greater capture and satisfy my audience. In "Romeo and Juliet", language is the most importan...

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... of Shakespeare many places in his novel Brave New World. The most obvious, and perhaps most significant allusion is the title itself. Shakespeare's The Tempest is the play from which the phrase originates. This quotation is used many times in the text with new connotations each time; hope, disgust, and command color John's proclamation. The quotations of Shakespeare throughout the duration of the ... done to humanity. He is repulsed by the stark contrast between the beauty of Lenina and descriptions by his mother and the reality of their mechanical society. He repeats the phrase again w...

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... fell, therefore even the lower class were able to afford paper and now people cared for the work of the poet rather than the price and taxes of the papers. Also, in 1864 a new edition of "The works of William Shakespeare" was printed and established itself and remained the highest standard text for almost a century. This was a huge success for his reputation because ... no other edition has ever accomplished a similar achievement. If it was not for the "binding industry" for discovering a method for affordable paper and the abolishment of taxes on paper then the spread of ... women in ...

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... rather than traditional ways of teaching." (1998, P.4) 'Active Methods' allow the play to be real in the classroom and from simple alterations where photocopies of the book become scripts, for instance, can remove the overwhelming feeling that a large amount of text needs to be studied. Students can make their own annotations on the script, which extend the sense of ownership ... 2013 a project called "Fresh Start" took place in Scotland for Key Stage 2 learners, where they used simplified versions of Shakespeare plays including Romeo and Juliet. They were introduced to vocabulary ...

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