Romeo and Juliet: In scene 1, Romeo is acting very strange and is in love with a girl called Rosaline, but she doesn't love him back that's why Romeo is feeling sad and depressed. Romeo uses oxymoron and lots of romantic language. "O brawling love o loving hate" "A right good mark-man! And she's the fair I love". In Benvolio's conversation with Montague, they are talking about Romeo's strange behaviour. Montague asks Benvolio who started ... be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy". This acceptance of love brings maturity to Romeo. In act 2 scene 2, Romeo and Juliet decide to marry each other....

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... to critically review is Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann's version of forbidden love and the eventual suicide deaths of young Juliet and Romeo is translated with a unique integration of modern setting and language without losing the original texture and meaning of Shakespeare's work. 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is evidently intended for a younger demographic of viewers, partially due to quick paced and choppy editing, modern cultural allusions, as well as ... to characters that had previously lacked much strength or personality. Overall, I be...

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... to fuel the audiences interest but it provides a useful prescience into the remainder of the text. In this instance, the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet does both. A rousing duel between the two rival families captures the audiences attention and carefully chosen techniques help to prepare the audience for the rest of the play. The mood in the opening scene mirrors the mood to ... his flowery, baroque proposals- "out of her favour where I am in love." Conversely, when he meets Juliet, his depression is lifted. This is reflected in his language - "It is the east and Juliet is the sun."...

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... lose interest rather quickly. The same may happen for Shakespeare. I believe there are many advantages of watching the movie of Romeo and Juliet over interpreting the book. Body language and voice tones are a major factor in determining a character's traits. In Act II, the scene in which Mercutio is teasing the Nurse was quite the opposite if how I had imagined ... with little actions in the video that would take five plus lines to show verbally. The video gives you a better sense of what you are reading and an easier way to interpret the Elizabethan language. Although a challenging bo...

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