... again stopped in his tracks. He has been beaten at his own game. Romeo, after this, realises that he has met his match and concedes, asking Juliet for another kiss. Juliet persists to play with words. This is a good example of her strength. Another example of Juliet's character happens early on in the play - Juliet had told her mother that she didn't want to ... get married, "it is an honour I dream not of" (1.iii.66), yet she went against her word and married Romeo even though she knew he was a Montague, the enemy ... of her family. This shows she is a self-willed character as she has...

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... be used to trigger any number of emotions in the audience. Firstly, he uses soliloquies throughout the play. This is a dramatic device as it lets the audience know what the character is really thinking, as thoughts and feelings can be hard to convey through actions alone. This is especially important when dealing with love, as in Romeo and Juliet'. This is because love ... be aware of this and immediately single out Romeo and Juliet's relationship as interesting. A lot can also be conveyed to the audience through costume, light and sound, which have to be imagined when merely reading th...

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... words make it easy for the audience to comprehend exactly what Shakespeare had in mind at the time he wrote the play. For an example of slang that Shakespeare uses in the opening act of Romeo and Juliet is between a Capulet and a Montague. The Montague states, "I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it." With this ... can realize the achievement in which Luhrmann tried and succeed in reaching through this opening scene. Luhrmann is able to not only capture the passion of each character, he once again augments it. With the masterful work of cinematography...

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... does not know where this scene is leading, something unusual for a Shakespeare play. For example, works such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth open to introductions or to scenes in which the principal character is directly involved. This is very different for Hamlet, and this perhaps reflects the character of Hamlet himself, and the way in which he attempts to find his own sense ... of direction from confusion. The opening scene acts as a form of miniature play, which introduces many of the questions and issues that will be dealt with ... through the progression of the play. For example,...

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... prayers or thought about what he was doing before he resorted to suicide, he could have been in the tomb in time for the Friar to arrive and explain everything. Romeo's character is an interesting one. He appears to have many positive qualities such as his enthusiasm and passion, but also many negatives ones which eventually lead to his downfall ... then there would be no problem with Romeo and Juliet being together. In the film version of the play Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann, Romeo is depicted as being quite clumsy and a bit of a disaster waiting to happen! I believe this is to re...

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... moon creates a mood that says change is in the air. The moon can be used to determine the doom of the character's relationship or the flourishing of it. The moon is used to create mood. In movies for example when something is about to happen you can ... creatures, the magic potions and the setting. Shakespeare is a mastermind at making that theme very clear. The play takes the character's imagination and makes them see something that they really don't want and what could possible happen if they don't take matters ... to be the most romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. The fantasy world ...

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... 's production, it stands next to them, and is perhaps the finest of his historical plays, that is, those in which he made poetry the organ of history, and assumed a certain tone of character and sentiment, in conformity to known facts, instead of trusting to his observations of general nature or to the unlimited indulgence of his own fancy. He wrote his play mostly based upon some historical ... what his tragic flaw is - Cleopatra or, rather, his infatuation with her. This opening is a kind of preparation for what is to come in the play, not unlike the opening lines of "Romeo and Juliet"...

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