Comparing Act 5 Scene 5 Of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Dear Academy, many different directors have interpreted the famous play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. I am here to tell you which directors did the best job at showing the suicide scene in which both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves because of not wanting to live without each other. I will be using directors Zeffirelli and Luhrmann for this comparison. In the original text, Juliet makes a plan with Friar Lawrence to fake her death in order for her to run away with Romeo and therefore not worry about their feuding families. A flaw in the plan, Romeo does not get the news and ends up believing Juliet is dead when he sees her. He then poisons himself, and dying next to her “death bed.” Juliet then rises and wakes up looking for her Romeo, and