Throughout the play "Romeo and Juliet," there is an obvious power struggle between the Capulets and the Montagues. Although the audience is never told why the two families are feuding, Shakespeare makes us aware from the beginning that there is an intense hatred between the families.
Romeo, belonging to the Montagues, and Juliet, a Capulet, have an accidental run in at a party that leads to the two young characters falling in love. This, of course, is doomed from the very beginning. The forbidden love quickly begins a series of domino events involving betrayal, lies, poison, and eventually ends in suicide. Both movies show a definite separation between the two families by use of costumes, props, and settings. By distinguishing the two families as separate and feuding sides, 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 the Capulets in orange, red and yellow colored clothing, and the Montagues in a dark blues, black, and grays. This depiction of the colors clearly segregates the families and allows us to clearly associate the characters to the side they are fighting for. The two families stuck only to their colors, giving the viewer no way to misinterpret whether they were a Capulet or a Montague. This aspect was especially apparent during the fight scenes, where it was color against color, not individual person against person. This allowed the fights to be less confusing for the audience to follow along with throughout each one. Other than the families being in different colored costumes, there are no other costume differences that Zeffirelli shows in his version of the play that would separate the two.
The movie depicts the struggle if two young lovers. It is Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet who have fallen in love. ... I first saw Romeo and Juliet when I was in middle school. ... Romeo and Juliet is a sappy sorry hopeless love story. ... Romeo and Juliet failed the test of life. ...
Through Friar Lawrence's determination to get the feuding families together, he helps Romeo and Juliet to marry; this creates tragic scenes throughout the play. ... Shakespeare not only uses the adult's actions to depict the play as a tragedy, but rather the teenagers through Romeos impotence to control his overwhelming attraction and love for Juliet. In virtue of adopting a century old feud between the two star-crossed lovers families, Shakespeare develops and inexorable means for a tragic end to the lives of Romeo and Juliet. Through this ancient feud, inevitable death awaits Rome...
The exception is Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo and Juliet seem alive. ... From Tybalt's vest depicting the Virgin Mary to Friar Lawrence's tattoo of the crucifix and Juliet's crucifix necklace. ... Through the use of intertextuality, the audience can also more clearly understand "Romeo and Juliet" because they can make connections between familiar themes like gang warfare in "West Side story" to the family feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. ... The film is a successful appropriation of "Romeo and Juliet" because it conveys the values of its original context whilst rela...
In Act Two of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet adores Romeo and is willing to leave all that is dear to her heart, even her family, to stay with him. ... Suddenly, Juliet is torn between Romeo and her family hence she uses oxymorons to show her inner turmoil. ... Juliet says Romeo has a serpent's heart. Serpents have often been depicted as the tempters to do evil, or just as evil in general. ... Juliet is comparing Romeo to an angel. ...
Even though Romeo and Juliet are from two rival families, they were determined to express their love despite the consequences that would follow. ... Shakespeare tends to depict love as not only a expression of two people's feelings, but also a violent and overwhelming power; possessing both Romeo and Juliet. ... Juliet goes to the extend of saying "O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? and I"ll no longer be a Capulet" (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 74-78); denying her family name and roots to further her cause for love; she asks Romeo to do the same. ... Romeo challenges fate by crying out "Then I de...
Even though Romeo and Juliet are from two rival families, they were determined to express their love despite the consequences that would follow. ... Shakespeare tends to depict love as not only a expression of two people's feelings, but also a violent and overwhelming power; possessing both Romeo and Juliet. ... Juliet goes to the extend of saying "O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? and I"ll no longer be a Capulet" (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 74-78); denying her family name and roots to further her cause for love; she asks Romeo to do the same. ... Romeo challenges fate by crying out "Then I de...
Romeo and Juliet - The Betrayal of the Adults to Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet becausethey are unable to understand her. ... She is under many pressures and demands ofher family. ... Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote the story of two lover's Romeoand Juliet. ... The factabout this part was that hate over ruled the love of Romeo to its family. ... But can love over power the hate of two families? ...
In the play Romeo and Juliet', this theme is love. ... This is especially important when dealing with love, as in Romeo and Juliet'. ... There is parental love for Romeo, lustful love for Rosaline, love within the two families and love between friends. ... Romeo does not partake in the family feuding as his kin do and scorns it, showing him to be free of sin. ... Juliet is meant to be accompanying Paris and Romeo would be killed if discovered. ...
I have forever had a fascination with the Shakespearian play ""Romeo and Juliet"". ... The ancient grudge that is presented in ""Romeo and Juliet"" is never openly identified, however in ""Romeo Must Die"" it is obvious from the opening scene that the hatred between the two family groups is fuelled almost entirely by the desire from wealth, power and ultimately, the land on the waterfront. ... However in ""Romeo and Juliet"" violence is played out only as a result of a deep hatred and rage, i.e.: when Romeo kills Tybalt; or in the case of Capulet becoming dominatingly violent with Juliet, it i...
