... trying to say about love? How does using it make the audience feel? In what way does his presentation of love increase the tragedy and depth of the play? When considering how Shakespeare presents the love between Romeo and Juliet, it is important to consider whether it was true love he was presenting, or not. Is their love real? The only people that could ... 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...

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... I read or watch "R&J", it seems as if it is the first time.... There is a reason the classical production Romeo and Juliet is the most enduring, most often performed and adapted, most often recalled and remembered, play. There is such depth and breadth to the story, to the language and to these characters that we all think we know so well. What a challenge it must have been then ... script lacks for/in portraying the protagonists. But on the whole the actors understood the role thoroughly. The play is based on worldwide known and ever-topical Shakespeare's "Romeo& Juliet". The story con...

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... first type. Some readers may concede the opposite, that the love is rushed and ill considered, thus doomed from its beginning. Yet, there is another interpretation, which arises from the soliloquies of both Romeo and Juliet, considering each love independently - that Romeo is a lover of the first definition, enamored, and that Juliet and her love for Romeo are best described by the baser classification. Defense for this thesis occurs on ... several levels. One of the less obvious but most profound supporting findings comes from the use of the word love. Many as shockingly sexual as she ...

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... deciding upon. I wanted to show the transformation clearly through my setting; however, I also wanted to reflect the differences in the two societies. "Romeo and Juliet" opens with the prologue revealing the fate of the star-crossed lovers and the nature behind their forbidden love. This entices the audience to become captured in the journey of these characters. I wanted to take a different approach ... are vastly different. The techniques I chose were deliberate in attempting to use the ones that would greater capture and satisfy my audience. In "Romeo and Juliet", language is the most i...

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... debates with himself whether he should kill himself, or if it is "nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," (Hamlet III.i.57). Similarly, In Romeo and Juliet, fate is blamed the cause of trouble. After the death of Tybalt, Romeo exclaims that he is "fortune's fool!" (Romeo and Juliet, III.i.136). It is clear that these characters are primarily governed by their belief in fate ... 's tragic plays end with death, usually of the protagonist. In Hamlet, all the prominent characters die, whether it is by poisoned wine, or the sword, or suicide. In Romeo and Juliet, the tw...

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