In his interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, Baz Luhrmann emphasizes the hyperbolic emotion and dramatics of the play. As a director he creates chaos through music, filming and dialogue and in doing this sets the stage for a superficial love between Romeo and Juliet. Amidst chaos, the two characters fall madly in love with the idea of love itself and through Luhrmann's directions they adopt the masks of classical lovers. By focusing on the facades of love as well as the dramatization of scenes, Luhrmann…
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Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet - Compared The famous play, Romeo and Juliet, has been rewritten and adapted many times since William Shakespeare wrote it. Two of the films recreating it, Franco Zeffireli’s 1968 version and Baz Luhrman’s 1996 film, share many commonalities in the cinematic elements of camera shots and lighting for the death scene. However, the elements of camera movement and sound in the brawl scene differ from each other dramatically. In the very well known death scene, Franco…
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Shakespeare’s original play in the 16th century and Baz Luhrmann’s filmic interpretation of Romeo and Juliet in 1996 both convey a tragedy. Despite the different attitudes, values and beliefs of love during the four century time difference, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is timeless. The two versions demonstrate the lack of control that teenagers have over fate and how this often leads to tragic outcomes. Both creators use a range of language and in Luhrmann’s case, visual techniques in order to develop the…
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it all in hopes of achieving a goal. Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The two plays are similar in numerous ways. However, the plays do have their differences. Shakespeare's tragedies, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, are plays with multiple layers, motifs, and themes. Shakespeare uses poison and suicide as a motif, in order to show that the roles people play are poisoned and uses death to represent a way out of those roles, especially for women…
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare are similar in many ways. Both authors use literary devices to write about dual natures in personalities, relationships, and events. The authors might express duality in different ways, but they both contribute to the theme of duality. Stevenson provides multiple forms of duality connected to the potion. Whenever Jekyll first makes the potion, it wasn’t created for harm. It was used…
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the dog Adjective: black Types of nouns Common: names any one of a class of objects Proper: names a particular person place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns always begin with a capital letter. Collective: names a whole class or group of objects Concrete: names something that can be perceived with at least one of the five senses Abstract: names an idea or quality that cannot be perceived by the sense Possessive: shows possession of the noun that follows singular nouns: ‘s plural nouns:…
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and poet, has had a great deal of success throughout his career with some of his works such as “Romeo and Juliet”. He has, however, also written many sonnets throughout his lifetime; including 116 and 130. These two sonnets may have a very different tone, but they convey a similar message. In sonnet 116 love is bring described in its true form; one which cannot be altered. Shakespeare repeatedly uses the word “change”, but with synonyms and such. However, although change continuously…
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Describe one idea worth learning about in the text. Explain why it was worth learning about. John Madden’s Shakespeare in love is a ‘romantic comedy’ set in sixteenth century England. Through its two unfortunate protagonists, Will Shakespeare ‘a lowly player’ with writer’s block and wealthy Viola De Lesseps who dreams of ‘love as there has never been in a play,’ it explores the idea of ‘the truth and nature of love’ in the Elizabethan era. Madden portrays the harsh realities of the time through…
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during the 14th century. The forgotten Greco-Roman civilization was rediscovered during the Renaissance, and with it came classical values, a questioning attitude, and an increased interest for worldly matters. By the 15th century, the Renaissance ideas in Italy spread northward to England, France, and Holland, and the Northern Renaissance came about. The Elizabethan era, regarded as the golden age of England, began with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Literature grew immensely during this time period…
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sentimental works focus on motherhood is borne out by “mother” at number 16 and “father” not in the top 100. As we move into the next three phases of the project, we will include stemming as an area of interest in classifying the results. Phase two will use two more novels by the same authors as those in the training set; phrase three may include ephemera, broadsides, and other materials collected in the EAF collection at the UVa Etext Center. Phase four will run the software on texts considered nonsentimental…
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