... 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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... are dying for their love or to help a loved one in need. There is a lot of hatred in the play, but I feel that love is really the main focus. Most of what the do and how they act is affected by love for another character. At the beginning of the play you see Romeo lovesick and very unhappy because he is in love with Rosaline ... wish to talk about the subject. Benvolio is worried for Romeo and talks to Romeo's father about how Romeo loved Rosaline and now he is lovesick. However this lovesick Romeo completely changes to a Romeo madly in love with a girl he has only just seen, and never ...

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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 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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... when he meets Juliet. He is impulsive and passionate: he falls in love with Juliet and marries her. When his friend is killed by Juliet's cousin, Romeo avenges the murder " and as a punishment he is banished from his native city of Verona and his newly-married wife. Benvolio One of Romeo's friends. He is quite a serious young man, who is sympathetic to Romeo's passions, and who allows Romeo and Mercutio to tease ... maternal affection for the child, as though it were indeed her own. Juliet's Nurse has such an affection for Juliet " strengthened, probably, by the fact that her own daught...

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In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Tybalt of the House of Capulet plays a prominent role in both the thematic scheme and in the ultimate outcome. Tybalt's characterization in the play occurs by a direct means and it remains static throughout the duration of the play. His rude, hateful, and bitter character is made clear by his eloquent words and actions. I feel that some of the characters ... a challenge to Romeo and raises the tension to a new level in Act II, Scene IV. This warning leads to Mercutio defending Romeo's honor and his death as well as Tybalt's death. His impac...

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... an examination of the characters of Tybalt and Romeo, it becomes evident that hatred, love, and the fight for honor, proved to be the ultimate cause for their downfall. From the very beginning, Tybalt seemed to have a perfuse hatred for the members of the house of Montague. In act one of the play, Tybalt instigates a fight with Benvolio and the other members of the house of ... to the ultimate tragedy that befalls the lovers. Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and...

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... William Shakespeare has written many prominent plays that were centered on a specific emotion that propelled the play forward and moved the story along. From Romeo and Juliet's love, to Hamlet's bitter anger and hate, Shakespeare and proven to be one of the greatest story writers of his time, and many times using his ability to play with emotions. Shakespeare's 1603-04 play Othello drove on the passion of ... this Moor had been married to the beautiful Desdemona, whom he loved, caused him to act foolishly and without correct judgment. He gave his up control of his own life and threw it ...

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... around the globe named Penny Arcade (her actual name is Suzanne Ventura). "New York Values" was Penney Arcade's latest piece of work and like all her other works of art were written and produced in New York. For the simple fact that Penny performed this play as a one-woman act, one could say that the play "New York Values" took on the characteristics of a monologue ... and the comical gestures in the play made it seem like a stand up comic show. When I first heard of the play, I was thinking "oh ... my goodness, here goes another one of those long "Grease" musical, open and close the c...

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