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Romeo And Juliet Comparative Essay

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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines love as “strong affection and tenderness felt by lovers.” The tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a story told of star-crossed lovers living in Verona, Italy in the 1500s. Following both tropes of “love at first sight” as well as “forbidden love”, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet follows Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, the descendants of families who have been feuding for ages. The two characters do everything they can to be together despite the difference in their families. Alas, in this Shakespearean tragedy, both of the young lovers end up taking their own lives through a complicated misunderstanding. In contrast to the tragedy however, which was written in 1597, a film adaption was …show more content…

In Baz Luhrmann’s film, Romeo never kills Paris, whereas, in Shakespeare’s tragedy, he does. As far as Romeo and Paris know, Juliet is dead, when she is actually in a deep, potion-induced sleep. Paris cries, “Oh, I’ve been killed! If you are merciful, open the tomb and lay me next to Juliet'' (Romeo & Juliet 5.3.72-73). Romeo is also present in this scene of the tragedy, mourning his one true love, Juliet, even though she is alive at this point in the story. Romeo runs into Paris at the Capulet family tomb and tells Paris to go, but he refuses, which provokes Romeo and starts a fight between the two that ends in Paris being killed. This detail was completely left out of Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation. This is a prime example of how the two works of literature are …show more content…

In both the movie and the play, Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another led them to suicide. The Chief Watchman states, “Prince, here lies County Paris killed. And Romeo dead. And Juliet. She was dead before, but now she’s warm and hasn’t been dead for long” (Romeo & Juliet 5.3.195-197). This quote shows how both forms of literature, even with their differences are the same. In both the play and the movie, Romeo and Juliet’s love is forbidden due to their family’s feud. They struggle to be together and are eventually driven to extreme measures to escape their situation. Romeo, believing that Juliet is dead, takes his own life, and when Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead, she also takes her own life. Overall, even with the differences shown throughout the play and the film adaptation, they are still the same

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Juliet is then forced to marry Paris, a nobleman, but she refuses and seeks the help of Friar Laurence once again. He gives Juliet a potion that will make her appear dead for 42 hours, allowing her to escape to Romeo's side when she wakes up. However, Romeo believes that Juliet is dead when he hears the news and he returns to Verona to kill himself next to her tomb. Juliet awakens to find Romeo dead beside her and kills herself as well. The tragic ending brings the two families together in grief and ends the feud between them.

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Once they arrived Romeo shared peaceful moment with Juliet when she was still in a potion-induced coma. Paris arrived when Romeo was in the Capulet tomb. Romeo fought and killed Paris. Romeo did not know that Juliet was in the potion-induced coma so Romeo drank a poison that killed himself. Minutes later Juliet woke up and saw Romeo killed himself with a poison, so Juliet decided to stab herself and she fell on him.

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Thus with a kiss I die.” (V.iii.116-120) Romeo kills himself because Juliet fakes her death so she didn’t have to marry Paris. Then shortly after Juliet awakes she kills herself because Romeo was dead. If Paris wouldn’t have gotten in the way they would both be alive and living

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Afterward, Friar Lawrence came and saw that it was almost time for Juliet to wake up, and he saw Romeo lying dead next to Juliet, she became conscious and saw that Romeo and Paris were both dead in her coffin. She picked up Romeo's bloody blade and stabbed herself in the chest, and

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Romeo thinks she’s dead so he tries to go visit her grave but Paris is there, they get into a scuffle and Romeo ends up killing Paris. Romeo feels too much guilt, as a result he drinks poison and Juliet finds him, she's so sad, she stabs herself. In conclusion,

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With Juliet’s death, Paris died. Romeo’s mother also died of shock and sadness. Romeo started a chain reaction of deaths by what he did. “ sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain, and Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before, warm and new killed”. ( v, III. 195) .

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At this moment in the play, Romeo gets word that Juliet had passed. He enters Juliet's tomb and encounters Paris. They fight, and Romeo murders Paris. Romeo then follows Juliet and commits suicide by drinking a potion. Friar Laurence rushes to the tomb, only to discover that he is too late.

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Instead, Romeo’s apprentice, Benvolio, who watched Juliet’s funeral, told his master that she was dead. Consequently, Romeo rushed to her family tomb. When he arrived at the tomb, Romeo stumbled upon Paris, who tried to stop him from entering by saying, “This is that banished haughty Montague that murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief it is supposed the fair creature died..” (V, Scene iii, 49-51) Paris had the courage to stand up to Romeo and try to stop him from entering the burial site, which created conflict, because Romeo came to the tomb to harm himself, and not the dead bodies.

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After Juliet's fake death, Paris is grieving at her tomb when he hears Romeo. Thinking that Romeo has come to do "villainous shame to the dead bodies" (5.3.52-53), Paris confronts Romeo, willing to fight on behalf of the Capulet name. His actions make his filial piety obvious and demonstrate his loyalty to Juliet and the Capulet family. Romeo's behavior is a dramatic contrast, for he is overwhelmingly desperate to be buried next to Juliet, even though being buried in the family tomb was massively important to culture back then, for it displayed a sense of dignity and respect for your family, respect that Romeo lacks. He warns Paris to "tempt not a desp'rate man" (5.3.59) for he is willing to do anything to break into the Capulet tomb, even if it means risking the reputation of not only himself but his entire family.

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In the end, Paris died at Romeo’s hand. After this, Romeo finally brings his attention to Juliet; believing that she is actually gone, he mourns for a short time and then follows on by drinking poison. He says “Here’s to my love ! [Drinks.] / O true apothecary !

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In act 5, Romeo killed Paris before heading into the tomb where Juliet was feigning dead. Romeo says “Here's to my love! (drinks the poison) 0 true apothecary, / Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die,” (5.3.119-120) before ending his life in front of the still living Juliet.

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Instead Juliet sees Romeo and stabs herself. The movie suicide scene is missing Friar Lawrence and Paris. Both in the play and movie the main point is that Romeo and Juliet die because they think the one another is dead. The movie is missing minor pieces and has a more brutal

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