... both the novel the Story of the Stone written by Cao Xueqin and the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, death is the main theme. Deaths in the novel and the play are caused by excessive love between spouses and family pressure. Misunderstanding and wrong decisions are factors that caused the end of characters' lives, and also characters are dead because they are loyal to their families ... . Thus, deaths in the play Romeo and Juliet and the novel the Story of the Stone are mainly ... in the play Romeo and Juliet and the novel the Story of the Stone. Many common factors...

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... , the directors can force the viewers to view them as such. This helps with the play's suspense and allows us as viewers to understand more in depth the true hate the two families feel for each other. In Franco Zeffirelli's version of the play, Romeo and Juliet (1968), we are shown a distinct separation between two families by putting them in different colors. He dresses ... down the majority of the time. In many scenarios during the movies, the Montagues are pictured doing drugs, and partying in the poorer parts of town. The backgrounds are often run down areas of town or dirty streets,...

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