Romeo And Juliet Comparative Essay

In the play Romeo and Juliet and the film Romeo+Juliet, Romeo is in love with a girl named Rosaline but she doesn't feel the same towards Romeo. Eventually Mercutio gets invited to the Capulet’s Masquerade Ball and Romeo and Benvolio decide to go with him. At the ball Romeo sees this woman, Juliet, whom he immediately falls in love with which will later on change everything. Both Romeo and Juliet and the film Romeo+Juliet develop the theme that Love is deadly through Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. The text reveals this conflict through character dialogue and stage directions and the film portrays it with physical action and dramatic emotion.

At the start of the play there is what appears to look like a town festival. The Capulets

Due to the brawl the prince comes in and stops the brawl and warns them that if there was to be another brawl that they would have to be executed. “Three civil brawls, bred airy word by thee, old Capulet, and Montaque, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets and made Verona’s ancient citizens cast by their grave beseeming ornaments to wield old partisans, in hands as old, cankered with peace, to part your canker'd hate. If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace, for this time all the rest depart away.” (Act 1, scene 1, lines 86-95). Later on after the prince gives his speech Romeo comes into the scene and he looks very upset because he loves a girl named Rosaline but she doesn’t return the same feelings for Romeo. Time goes by and a servant

Not long after they met, the ball was over and Romeo had to leave. Juliet then goes up to the nurse and asks her who the boy was. “Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? The son and heir of old Tiberio. What’s he that now is going out of the door? Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio. What’s he that follows there that would not dance? I know not. Go ask his name. If he is married, My grave is likely to be my wedding bed. His name is Romeo, and a Montaque, The only son of your great enemy. 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.” (Act 1, scene 5, lines 128-141) In this quote, Juliet was saying that the one person she hated is the same person she loves and if he was married then she wanted to die. Later on, Romeo showed up outside her room right under her balcony. Juliet then comes onto her balcony and starts talking about Romeo and wishes that he was there with her. After a little while of listening to the voice of Juliet, Romeo speaks and startles Juliet. For a little while Romeo and Juliet talk and start declaring their love for each other and talk about getting married the next day. “If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, by one that I’ll procure to come to thee, where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; and all my fortunes at thy foot