Discuss the appropriation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Romeo+Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann Texts and ideas from texts are appropriated and transformed into other text forms and other compositions in a different context. An appropriation is a text that is appropriated or taken over by another composer and presented in a new way. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known high culture text that is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families…
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Juliet was portrayed by a young male when the play was first being performed. This could explain why in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is so stronged willed, so it won’t emasculate the actor. The first lines spoken by Romeo depicts a young man in love, but has his heart was broken. Juliet thirteen year old girl headstrong working toward finding her love in due time. The two star crossed lovers meet and fall madly in love with antagonism between their two home. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the concept…
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The tragedy of Romeo & Juliet The question has been thrown around that if Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are really in love or in lust. This is a question many readers ask themselves after reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. There are a number of moments in the play that seem to suggest that the main characters might not understand the true nature of love. Romeo and Juliet's relationship show readers their immaturity and superficial infatuation with each other because the two only knew…
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Romeo and Juliet Essay “There are no simple love stories. If it’s simple, it’s not love. If it’s love, it’ll get complicated.”(Unknown). In Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, there are many different kinds of love; those loves include conventional, affected, sensual and true love. Shakespeare portrays each kind of love through characters. By doing so he teaches his readers about love and the many forms it appears in. Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a study of the many types of love that exist…
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Luhrmann created Shakespeare’s 17th century play, Romeo and Juliet, into something visually captivating for current viewers. In Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers named Romeo and Juliet fall in love, oblivious to the fact that their families are enemies. Because they realize their passionate love is doomed due to the feuding families, they both decide to take their lives in a tragic ending. Cinematic and directorial decisions significantly impact the telling of Romeo and Juliet given director Luhrmann's…
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example of a popular play he was wrote was Romeo and Juliet, a tragic romance between two star-crossed lovers. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare establishes his opinion of adolescents as immature and dramatic numerous times throughout the script. Immaturity is seen throughout Romeo and Juliet as a major theme in the play. For instance, Shakespeare uses young and fair Juliet’s longing for Romeo in Act I scene v. After her encounter with Romeo at the ball, Juliet laments to herself and says, “ If he be…
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Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare was a play written a long time ago and been made into movies and books today. william was a very talented playwright because it is very well known and used lots in everyday life today. In Romeo and juliet William Shakespeare portrays love at first sight when romeo first sees juliet at the capulet ball. Romeo refers to juliet as the brightest thing in the room he also compares he to a “like snowy dove trooping with cows” before he seen juliet…
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Romeo and Juliet Some people might say that you should love with your heart and not with your eyes. In Shakespeare's case you love with your eyes as also shown in the play "Romeo and Juliet” where both lovers fall in love with each other’s beauty. In beginning of the play Romeo was in love with this young lady named Rosaline; he noticed that their love was impossible and he fell into depression that lead him to enter into the Capulet's house which is his families’ enemy. He found a girl…
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Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tales written about a tragic love story. Romeo and Juliet are both characters who transition from childhood to adulthood, known as the coming of age. Romeo starts of the play as a stereotypical lover, who is a young naïve character that falls in love with Juliet. Their love for each other is a problem because the Montague’s and Capulet’s are family enemies. Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet face problems that cause them to mature as they learn…
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witnesses many love stories that have encapsulated people across the ages: Jack and Rose from Titanic, Quasimodo and Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and finally Romeo and Juliet from the beloved play Romeo and Juliet. All of these stories have one thing in common other than romance, tragedy. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, two opposing families in Verona, Italy brawl for power. A young man and woman emerge from both opposing sides, Juliet of the Capulets, and Romeo from the…
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