... cloak to hide me from their eyes; and but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love." (Act II, Scene 2, L. 75-78) Romeo's love for Juliet leads them to hastily get married, just one day after they first meet. When Romeo receives word of Juliet's death, he instantly decides to kill himself ... so that he can be "with" her. "Will I set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world ... to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die." (Act III, Scene 5, L. 237-244)...

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... distraught. He thought no woman could be as fare as Rosaline. Romeo's friend, Benvolio, thought differently. Benvolio encouraged Romeo to go to the Capulet's feast and accurately predicted that Romeo would find other girls more attractive than Rosaline. This was highlighted when Benvolio said "Compare her face with one that I show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow." ( I. ii. 86-87). ... Later, when violence was prevalent, Benvolio watched out for his friends and relatives, encouraging peace. ... reached the lowest servants from each of the families. Due to the hate, the rel...

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... Verona. In act 3 Scene 1 Benvolio and Mercutio are out on the town. Benvolio returns to avoid a fight. Tybalt arrives and looks for Romeo and finds him to fight. Romeo refuses to fight because he has married Juliet. Mercutio fights in Romeos place but dies. Because of this Romeo kills Tybalt and gets exiled from Verona. This changes their situation. After the fight everything was different for Romeo and Juliet the fight had ... he had lost his love out of his grief he kills him self Juliet wakes and finds Romeo dead she was also in terrible grief she takes the dagger from Romeo and stab...

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... Some of the scenes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are different from the ones in Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet. Luhrman interprets the characters in a way that many readers may not have imagined. The symbolism is modernized and changed from play to movie. Some of the scenes changed are the balcony scene, the Capulet party, Mercutio's death, and the lover's deaths. One of the most famous scenes in ... play is quite effective. Although, Romeo and Juliet is supposed to be a warning to the lovers not a love story. The balcony scene is a prime example. In the text where Juliet says ". . ....

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... as the "ugliest beauty" he had ever seen. Oxymorons can also be used I speeches, plays and poems. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses oxymorons to express and show the conflict in Juliet's heart when she learns that her husband has killed her favorite cousin. In Act Two of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet adores Romeo and is willing to leave all that is dear to her heart, even her family, to ... beginning she sees a beautiful face with a matching attitude, but after Romeo kills Tybalt, she is second guessing Romeo's pure heart. Juliet says Romeo has a serpent's heart. S...

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... towards the rest of Juliet's family. We can see by the use of oxymorons, that Juliet is being indecisive of which direction to go in. Now she is left in a hard situation especially after marrying Romeo which has definitely crossed the line of her family's obligations. One of the most famous scenes in 'Romeo and Juliet' is the balcony scene (Act 2 Scene 2). Romeo describes the moon being ... envious of Juliet's amazing beauty. He says that the ... moon's "vestal livery but is sick and green". The phrase "vestal livery" is ... ...

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... she did there would be serious repercussions for both herself and her daughter. Patriarchal themes are apparent between Romeo and Juliet as well. In Act 2 Scene 2 Romeo envisions Juliet as a mystical creature, a "winged messenger of heaven" who captivates "mortals" so that they "fall back and gaze on him" (29-33). Romeo's dream expresses the infantile wish to be chosen by, and identified with a holy father, as is shown by the ... norms. The obviously unbalanced distribution of power in Verona requires either continual compliance with the norms or deceitful insolence. Romeo and Juliet's ...

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... learns how to deal with them. Romeo, although cheerless and deeply in love with Rosaline at the beginning of the play, matures rapidly by the power of his undying love for Juliet to a honest and gentle young man able of loyalty and commitment. For the duration of Act One, Romeo is both fixated with Rosaline and confused about himself. For example, while Romeo is miserable over his lost love with ... Rosaline he talks with Benvolio and states, " Tut, I have lost myself, I am not here. This is not ... her. Through the course of Act One Romeo shows that he is infatuated with Rosaline and ...

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... end could not remove" (prologue R+J lines 10-11). As well, Romeo was a highly versatile fighter, thus he was subject to many challenges. One of such lead to him slaying another individual named Tybalt. By doing so he caused his eventual banishment from Verona, the location of his love Juliet. In comparison, Hamlet found his social status to be a negative influence ... is the element of fate. Fate is "an uncontrollable power that is thought to make things happen, and that controls one's destiny" (Oxford 260). As to be discovered in the proceeding examples, this aspect is partly responsibl...

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... the issues of marriage, the importance of gangs and families to each story. To understand these differences, I have read and/or watched both Romeo and Juliet, and the similar tragedy, West Side Story. Above, I named a few of the many differences between William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Ernest Leaman's screenplay, West Side Story. One main difference is that in Romeo and Juliet the soliloquy is spoken while in West Side ... Story's musical style brings the viewer or listener. Further into the play and makes the play more effective. An example of this is when, in Act II, Scene II,...

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... Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the most powerful and famous plays of all time. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was the beginning of a new era of English literature. Countless themes and motifs were revealed throughout the story. The purpose of this essay is to explore a few of the main themes and motifs that significantly impact on the storyline. One theme that is central to understanding Romeo and Juliet is Fate and Destiny ... nature. It is referenced several times throughout the course of the play. Nature is a representation of several aspects in Romeo and Juliet, including...

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... the reader sees after words that if he kill himself, he would not be the only one affected, he could hurt other people like Juliet, or his family, causing tragic situations. On the other hand, Friar is one of the persons who support the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he thinks that it could the their love could change the relation of the two families ... . He is the priest of the church in Verona and is a really close friend of the Montagues and the Capulets. The Friar is not really secure about the feelings between Romeo and Juliet, but he marries them very quickly withou...

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... Benvolio with his sword out , yet saying he wants peace. Another example of rashness and impulsivess is between Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet have just met at the Capulets ball.Later that ngiht they met at Juliet's balcony. They talked al night, upon falling in love Juliet said" Thee words,dear Romeo, and goodnight indeed./If that thyheart of love be horrible,/Thy propose marriage send me word tomorrow./ ( ... II. ii 142-144) Juliet has just suggest getting married. Both Tybalt and Juliet acted upon impluse as most young pple do, thus creating his young people, Shakespeare also show...

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... to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?". I believe that the most influential factor contributing to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet is fate. There are references to fate throughout the play. The first one is in the prologue where it says, "star crossed lovers" which shows that it is inevitable that Romeo and Juliet fall in love. From the very first act the characters already appear to realise ... their destiny Romeo said "hanging in the stars" which implies a ... going. However, Friar Lawrence should not have secretly married Romeo and Juliet as he knew that if the families d...

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... William Shakespeare is the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Although it is about four hundred years old, it is one of the most popular stories ever told. By having the right ingredients, makes it something people even today can relate to: teenagers sharing a forbidden love, funny friends, troubling parents, fights, parties, murder and nights of secret love. Romeo and Juliet tells a lot about the society and times in which it ... was written. And probably a little bit about the passionate ... , See what scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!" (Shake...

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ROMEO AND JULIET Comparison of Baz Luhrman's - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet And Franco Zeffirelli's - Romeo and Juliet ACT 5 Scene 3 In my viewing of both versions of the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, i have seen that both versions of the play differ very much to each other and to the original play itself. There are numerous scenes in both films were you can find these differences but i have only chosen 1 particular scene which i think ... were as the Capulets wear very tidy and neat shirts and trousers. Also there is one other thing that i have noticed, Baz Luhrman ...

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... to William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet." From his witty word play and insightful observations to his violent death Mercutio held the audience entrapped, hanging on his every word as he provided them with humour, insight and a fast paced tone, whenever he appeared on stage. Mercutio's word play is a common feature of his speech, in Act 1 scene 4 Mercutio is trying to entice Romeo out of his lovesick ... a tender thing" (1.4.23-25). Meaning that if love is such a burden for him (Romeo), maybe he should give it up. He carries his clear-sighted remarks right up until his death in A...

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... Ado About Nothing "Much Ado About Nothing" is not, really about nothing. It is a great comedy with many similarities between Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet. Even though Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy, and Romeo and Juliet, is one of his saddest tragedies, the two plots share many common incidents. In both of his dramatic plays, love is the main them of the story. In ... was disparate in each of Shakespeare's plays. These scenes are different but also similar. In Romeo and Juliet, the balcony scene leads towards good love because Romeo and Juliet are actual...

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... Shakespeare. The play is about two star crossed lovers who fall deeply in love with one another. Though because of the hate between their two families, they can not be together and therefore their lives end in tragedy. We have chosen to do activity number 4. This activity involves Romeo and Juliet's behavior after a number of important events have occurred. Would they have reacted differently if ... aggressive don't think that you will get away with it. You may be punished and you may never be forgiven. Think before you act. We believe Romeos horoscope would have been like this because ...

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... the truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love" (Shakespeare quotes hamlet). Romeo and Juliet were born and destined to fall in love and then die.Their families ensiled this fate through the feud they withheld with one another. This story ends in a tragedy, unlike many others with makes it distinguishable and why it is also so well known, this isn't a love story, but a story of ... own will. This further emphasises that the two lovers (Romeo and Juliet) are bound together by fate and foreshadows the death they have yet to face. Death is inevitable, but how one dies is determined by fate...

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... to do things to lose weight, so that they can please others and so no one would call them fat again. Being in love can make anyone lose their mind. The fact that you have such strong feelings for another person can be very intense. Romeo and Juliet fell right into love from the first moment that they saw each other, not knowing the problems ... they tried everything in their power to stay together and keep it a secret. As the time passed they fell deeper and deeper in love. When their families found out about their relationship they wanted them separated at once. As a result of this act...

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... the following essay 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 until these characters "fall" that the story of their love changes ... role in the tragedy than the 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...

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... , convince him to commit an evil act. One part of this supernatural element of a tragedy is the sense of inescapable fate, which often involves predictions. It is present in "Othello" with Iago not realising the effects of what he was saying to Othello, and fate took his jealousy too far. It is present in "Romeo and Juliet". Juliet's letter does not reach Romeo. This is also why many ... people believe that "R & J" is not a real Shakespearean tragedy because fate plays too big a part and that their major character flaw is their possessive love for one another, which shouldn't be a charac...

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... as seen in movies like Angoor, where the plot is drawn almost entirely from "A Comedy of Errors" and Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. One of his most most respected and beloved plays, "Romeo and Juliet," has inspired scores of movies such as Baz Luhrmann's version starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. To add to this, there have been countless stage productions of his plays. His works continue ... ' (Julius Caesar), 'break the ice' (The Taming of the Shrew) and 'bated breath' (The Merchant of Venice) are used in everyday speech and writing. Shakespearean quotes such as "To be, or ...

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... one another. The characters are trapped in a whirlwind of events dictated by Romeo's brash nature as well as a pervasive rush that finish in the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet. From the first scene's spark of unreasonable violence follow Tybalt's heated hatred, Romeo and Juliet's instant love and its irony, the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt and Romeo's banishment. Juliet's forced marriage and expulsion from her house, her dangerous plan, Romeo's ignorant reaction and ... 141) Again unreasonable passion has led to dire results, the love of Romeo and Juliet so consuming in so short a ti...

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