Comparison Of Romeo And Juliet And Warm Bodies

The classic play of Romeo and Juliet has inspired many modern films. For instance, Warm Bodies is a movie about a zombie who falls in love with a human girl (Julie), and through spending time together, Julie learns to love him back. This film is an Hollywood-ized adaptation from the original plot of Shakespeare's tragic Romeo and Juliet. Warm Bodies has altered the characters, the plot, the ending, the setting, the language, and the themes to appeal to a younger and modern audience. Additionally, the alternations of the characters change the final outcome of the story. Julie's strength as a female lead, as compared to Juliet, ensures that love succeeds where it might fail if she were weak. The environment in which the two female leads grow

In contrast, Julie lives in a world where a zombie apocalypse has happened, she grows up learning to fear corpses, shoot guns and prepare for the fact that her loved ones can be gone any moment, and never come back. To put this another way, Julie is living a life where it requires her to be strong and Juliet has a life where she has nothing to worry about. To illustrate this point, quotes from both characters during a point in which they know/think a loved one is dead can be analyzed to confirm. "Is Romeo slaughtered and is Tybalt dead? My dearest cousin and my dearer lord? Then dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom, for who is living if these two are gone?" (3.2.71-74). This is a quote that Juliet speaks when she thinks both Tybalt and Romeo are dead. She states that without these two people, her life is not worth living anymore. This clearly showcases that Juliet is not emotionally strong enough to think logically about the situation; instead the first path she thinks of is suicide. On the other hand, Julie's reaction to the death of her boyfriend, Perry, greatly contrasts to Juliet's response. "It's just in my world, people die all the time. You know, it's not like I'm not sad that he's gone, cause I am. But I think I've been

Both plots include the female character falling deeply in love with the male lead but there are differences in their ways of treating the relationship. When Juliet meets Romeo, her entire life revolves around him. Her happiness depends on Romeo and when he is gone, she commits suicide because she can't be without him. Conversely, Julie leaves R to go home because she knows that's where she belongs. Likewise to Juliet and Romeo, she too loves R, but she knows what she has to do so she builds up the courage and leaves him. Previously, the evidence from the play shows that Juliet tends to think very negatively and a problem that she encounters can lead her to the point of ending her life. "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." (5.3.167-170). This quote was taken from Juliet's last scene where she commits suicide, the reason being that Romeo is dead. Juliet could not stand the fact that Romeo is dead and her only solution to that is to kill herself to be with him. Her actions are selfish and irrational which obviously shows that she is weak in comparison to Julie. "What did I think was gunna happen, that she'll actually wanna stay with me?"(Warm Bodies) indeed, Julie did leave R hence his quote. She loves R but she knows what she has to do, she is rational and thinks not