“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.” William Shakspeare created the play Romeo and Juliet in 1595. The movie was created in 1968. Romeo and Juliet is a play which includes feuding and a love story. In addition to the play, a movie made by Franco Zeffirelli has both similarities and differences including the balcony sceen, the final words of Juliet, and the fight between Paris and Romeo. In Act II, Scene ii the balcony sceen occurs between Romeo and Juliet. In the play, Romeo views from the ground, and Juliet looks down at him from the balcony, but they cannot see each other. Although, in the movie, Romeo stands in a tree, and Juliet leans over to him from a porch. While Juliet stands on the balcony she says, “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet.” …show more content…
What's here? A cup, closed in my truelove’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative. Thy lips are warm!/ Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” Juliet kissed Romeo, to try to kill herself by getting posion from his lips before she says, “Thy lips are warm.” Then, after she said, “This is thy shealth; there rust, and let me die,” she killed herself with Romeo’s dagger because there was not enough posion left on his lips. On the other hand, the final words of Juliet are not said in the movie before she dies. This big change, did not make the death of her as dramatic as it was in the