Countless similarities are displayed between plays and their modern-day adaptations ranging from major influences such as setting to finer details like character traits. Being that they are adaptations, stark differences from the original can be discovered, too. The star-crossed lovers of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a drama by William Shakespeare, and West Side Story are equally affected by their friends but are influenced in dissimilar ways. Despite playing the same role, the Nurse and Anita provide very distinct influences to Juliet and Maria through the course of the stories.
Romeo and Juliet, a play, a tale of two, sane, mundane lovers, and of course their wonderful in-laws, yes? No for what would such a story be without any drama? The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by famed Renaissance playwright William Shakespeare, lacks such content and carries quite the opposite. These two lovers through a lack of communication and short-sighted choices dig themselves and their relatives down the rabbit hole to the extent of their deaths. However, it is the impulsivity of Lord Capulet and his daughter Juliet throughout the play that creates troubling situations for these young adults, resulting in the tragedy of young people being forced to make adult decisions.
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”, is a line that was very important to the history of literature. It tells of the inevitable fate of two star-crossed lovers that were bound to death because of each other. There have been many movies and plays preformed with this story line, but two in particular are the Baz Luhrmann film and the original play’s text. Both the Baz Luhrmann film and William Shakespeare’s play of Romeo and Juliet may be compared by focusing on the following scenes: the party scene, balcony scene, fight and death scene of Tybalt and Mercutio, and the suicide scene.
The timeless romance of Romeo and Juliet has been known and read by people of every age group and time period across the globe. The tragedy of this play teaches us lessons about love and the irrational decisions of teenagers. The original play written by Shakespeare was remade into several film versions that portray similar themes and plots. In 1961, Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise directed a modern day musical called “West Side Story” that showed a different interpretation of Shakespeare’s original play. Later, Franco Zeffirelli created a film version of Romeo and Juliet in 1968 that followed very closely to the original play version of Romeo and Juliet.
The two adaptations by Luhrmann and Zeffirelli of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet into film, both convey a similar theme of forbidden love by using various lighting techniques and camera angles/movements; although, Zeffirelli does a better job at displaying this theme by his use of camera angles. The adaptations of Romeo and Juliet by both Luhrmann and Zeffirelli use lowkey and highkey lighting to help prove a forbidden lovers theme. The low-key lighting which is present in the beginning of the scene from Luhrmann’s film when Romeo is hiding amongst the statues helps to show a theme of forbidden love: as Romeo had to sneak into Juliet’s backyard while maintaining complete silence (which he failed to do). Although, the low-key lighting does
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Arthur Laurent’s West Side Story were both tragic, romantic, works. West Side Story was a close variation of the play Romeo and Juliet, but the author of West Side Story changed characteristics of Tony to differ from his Romeo and Juliet equivalent, Romeo. Tony became more of an introverted, optimistic, and innocent character. On the other hand, Romeo was outgoing, seemingly bipolar, and violent. These changes in character between Tony and Romeo altered the themes from societal expectations, fate over free will, and complicated families to societal expectations in the 1950’s, inevitability of fate, and gang rivalry due to racism.
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.
While watching Romeo and Juliet and The Fault In Our Stars, I could not help but notice the parallel action of the two movies. In the same way, both stories end in tragedy like the main couple’s of the stories end up in tragic. In the meantime, Romeo and Juliet are torn because of a rivalry between two families. Romeo and Juliet is one of the most central concepts of William Shakespeare. Whereas Romeo and Juliet both fallen in love quickly during the masquerade and feast.
What has been retained, enhanced, and/or lost in the play’s movement from Shakespeare’s page to Baz Luhrmann’s and Franco Zeffirelli’s respective scenes? Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare’s ageless classics, has enthralled audiences everywhere for hundreds of years. Two versions of this iconic play include Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film and Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film. Zeffirelli’s film is mainly focussed on retaining accuracy and remaining faithful to the original play script. In contrast, Luhrmann opts for a more contemporary take on the classic piece.
Romeo and Juliet Argumentative Essay Love is not always filled with happiness with rainbows and unicorns, instead, at times, love is filled devastating twists and turns. In the famous play, Romeo and Juliet, which is written by William Shakespeare, shows many examples of the struggles with love. The genre of this play would be a tragedy that takes place in Verona, Italy. The play is about two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, who keep a secret relationship from their parents. Unfortunately, life is not easy and instead, their parents are actually in a feud.
William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” is about, two young people falling in love two different rivaling households. Having faced the utmost odds, Romeo and Juliet fall in love upon first sight, and pursue each other. However, while trying to be together, they make some unfortunate decisions that ultimately lead to the tragic end. In the story
Romeo and Juliet is a classic play by William Shakespeare, In 1968 it was adapted in a full movie, and later on in 1996 was again adapted into the big screen, both movies have so many similarities and so many differences, in the 1968 movie it is a more realistic, more true to the script, but the 1996 movie takes place in verona beach in the US, in modern times, the sword fights are actually guns, both use shakespearean english, but the most important part of any Romeo and Juliet performance, is to show their love was never meant to be, both movies do an excellent job in portraying this concept, in this essay I will explore that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is starcrossed is portrayed by the 1968 and 1996 version through the first time they meet in the party, the balcony scene, and the scene where they are in bed. The first time Romeo and Juliet meet is at the Capulet party, this is portrayed in both movies differently, in the 1996 version Romeo is walking by an aquarium, looking at the fish, when he sees juliet, their eyes meet and follow each other, but just as they were going to come face to face, Juliet’s nurse grabs her, and takes her away to dance with Paris her future husband. In the 1968 version Romeo is far away from Juliet, and he hides behind a column, she is dancing with some people, but she is too far away, and has lots of people between Romeo and Juliet.
Residing in the jungles of Madagascar, the Aye-aye is a very unique creature in the Animalia kingdom and is the only member of its family classification. Since the Aye-aye has such a unique physique, it was originally classified as a rodent, but is now considered a to be a specialized lemur. Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-Aye is now being more adequately studied but researchers, biologists, and scientists alike. The Aye-Aye is a unique species of Lemur dwelling in the rainforests of Madagascar. Originally thought to be a large species of Squirrel, The Aye-Aye is the largest nocturnal primate in the world.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, originally published in 1597. It is a tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, who fall in love with each other despite their families hate. The play is taught in many schools and it is often coupled with a movie adaption of the play. There have been many movie adaptations of Romeo and Juliet done and yet there are only a few out of the five I have watched that I would recommend. The top one that I would recommend is the 1968 version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
Tara Jahns Ms. Zita Szigeti Language and Literature Advanced 9 9th of March 2015 English Essay Summative Assessment of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is such an interesting play because even now, five hundred years later we are still talking and learning about this play. It is so relatable till date because people fall in love now as Romeo and Juliet did, families fight, as the Montagues and Capulets did. We can relate to each character in some. Which is what makes this play so compelling and lets it live, five hundred years later. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale of two lovers, separated by an epic feud of their two houses (Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet.)
