... Juliet is Shakespeare's first authentic tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding families prevent them from being together. The play has many characters, each with its own role in keeping the plot line. Some characters have very little to do with the plot; but some have the plot revolving around them. While the character of Friar Lawrence spends only a little ... , if you can, what I have married ..."(125). Another example of this is when Catherine married Edgar Linton. Although she had been happy at the beginning of the marriage, she thought having parties a...

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... it is accurate to the original script. Such lines as when Abram, a Capulet asks the question "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" and Sampson, a Montague replies, "I do bite my thumb, sir". This starts the gunfight between the two families. For those that are unsure, the biting of the thumb at one another is an ancient Italian insult. I think that some of the audience may ... Juliet was still walking away from him. The camera follows Juliets every movements well and is showing that things are very chaotic in a way, following Juliet up the stairs, through the hall way, past the balcony, ...

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... that Luhrman has integrated into the modern version, without altering the script is when Benvolio says "Put up your swords-, in the Luhrman version and the modern world where people use guns instead of swords, he has used the camera to focus on the guns where it says the brand name of the gun which ... where Romeo first sees his true love, Juliet. Romeo has just taken some kind of hallucinogen, a drug perhaps, and it looks as if Romeo is trying to test himself, asking his brain if he wants to live, taking the risk of death to the edge when we see him with his head in a bowl of water, one...

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