... make the play more accessible to the modern audience; Baz Luhrmann had to alter a considerable amount of the 'traditional' version of Romeo and Juliet. He produced Shakespeare's play as an appropriation, which meant that he moved the story four centuries into the future, adapting the ... Romeo and Juliet is the unique soundtrack compiled. In Baz Lurhmann's version, a compilation of popular songs has been used to make the soundtrack to the movie. This further assists the audience to relate to the film. Using music from the 20th century also re affirms the setting of the film. In the Zefer...

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... start their relationship with a hate-love relation and as it evolves Shakespeare ends the play by resolving it. Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False love is the first evident important theme across Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, before he meets Juliet, thinks that he loves Rosaline, believing that ... she is the girl of his dreams, praising her beauty, and complaining about her not returning his love. Romeo forgets his love to Rosaline ... at the first moment he sees Juliet. Romeo is i...

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... to what the play proper is going to be about, it creates a comedic theme, which is created by the language used by Christopher Sly, it introduces many themes that link to the play proper i.e. deception and illusion and it summaries the play as a whole. Obviously the play proper can stand on its own, but the story of the Lords practical joke on Christopher ... role which she initially rejects. The implication that Katherine like Sly "Cannot choose" suggests that she is as much a plaything of Pertruccio as Sly is of the lord. Another theme is illusion and reality. The main play is an illu...

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... of the house of Montegue. He refuses to oblige with the idea of peace and forces them to fight. His exaggerated idea of honor to his family blinds him of any sort of ability to act rationally. The origin of the brawl introduces the important theme of masculine honor. Masculine honor does not function in the play as some sort ... avenge the death of his friend, and despair compels him to suicide upon hearing of Juliet's death. Such extreme behavior dominates Romeo's character throughout the play, and contributes to the ultimate tragedy that befalls the lovers. Romeo and Juliet does not ma...

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... even be mentioned without someone blushing or being offended. When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seeing one person exclusively ... is the kind of thing that would give a person a bad reputation. Promiscuity is highly encouraged, and without disease, pregnancy, or love to think about people are not forc...

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... the innocent young couple to commit suicide without experiencing their strong dream to marry, thus conveying the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil law. One could observe the incongruity in Haemon's family values between the selected passage and an earlier excerpt, thus suggesting an ironic tone. Before Antigone commits suicide, Haemon agrees with his father ... values, thus conveying the omnipresent tone of pathos within this passage. The pathetic tone within the tragedy, Antigone, leads to the universal theme of how one should value intimate relat...

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... ( "Last Tango in Paris", "Water for Elephants",  "A Walk to Remember"), Chic Flick ( "Dirty Dancing", "Romeo+Juliet"), Romantic Comedies (" Love Actually", "Moonstruck"), Romantic Action Comedies ("Killers", "Knight and Day", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "This Means War"), Romantic Thriller ("The Phantom of the Opera" ... scene (happy times, sunny. Bad times, raining etc.). The characters are usual for a romantic drama: a young man Noah Calhoun (main character), young woman Allison Hamilton (main character), strict parents Anne and John Hamilton, fiancé Lon Hammond Jr., girl on the si...

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In both Othello and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the notion of doomed love or star crossed lovers is a theme that dominates the plays" climatic progress and protagonist development. Successful romance in these works then, is what drives the characters and brings joy to the gloom that ensues when apart from the object of one's affection. Two Shakespeare productions that veer from this common pursuit of love ... are Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, which focus not ... his mother's womb untimely ripped" (Act 5, Scene 10, 15-16). This suggests that MacDuff's masculinity is greater t...

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