Romeo And Juliet Choice Board Rationale

Romeo and Juliet Choice Board Rationale
Daniel Ponce

“Know your limits”, is the one thing I didn’t listen to. I started by doing a video of an additional scene in Romeo and Juliet and in the beginning, I thought I could really do it I was excited and very confident that I was going to complete it, but days go by and I hadn't done anything and so I kind of lied to my self that I was on time and that I could really do it but in reality, I was nowhere near close to completing it. A few days later I talked to my teacher and decided to change my choice board from a video to a storyboard which was faster and way easier to do and it let me express my ideas more clearly. My idea was to do an alternative ending to Romeo and Juliet in which they suffer

For me, this is an interesting question because it very much relates to Romeo and Juliet's outcome at the end of the play. We already know from the prologue that Romeo and Juliet are “Star-crossed lovers”. They are opposed by the stars and we see they play the role of an external force somewhat like fate we see an example of this in Act 5, Scene 1 when he says "Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars!", in a way he’s personifying the stars as kind of an external force. We also know from the prologue that they are going to die no matter what, that’s their destiny, and they kind of already know it, before the Capulet party Romeo senses a weird feeling that fate is planning his doom He wonders if he should attend the party, as "my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars.", yet another example of personification and foreshadowing. But we are left wondering if it really was Romeo and Juliet's choices that led to their predetermined death or if it was their fate from the beginning until their

For the alternative ending, I wanted to really demonstrate how Romeo and Juliet’s fate is already destined to happen and their actions and choices were not of coincidence, but instead, a predetermined fate that they were plagued with since birth. And so in the script, I mentioned destiny many times as a foreshadowing tool to what was going to happen which was their deaths. I also decided to use the Motif of Time in my script like when Romeo takes the poison at the same time Juliet was waking up which resulted in Juliet committing suicide another aspect I implemented into my story was that not even time can stop their fate. When writing the script I wanted it to be somewhat of a visual representation of Romeo and Juliet’s fate and how they can do nothing about it. I wrote it with the sole purpose of showing a visual artistic rendition of their fate so it can help better understand their inevitable fate and gain a deeper insight into the Theme of Fate in the