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Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Pearl Harbor

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Does anyone know Romeo and Juliet and Pearl Harbor? These two movies are very big tragedies and have a lot in common. Pearl Harbor is the attack, by Japan, on the United States of America. Romeo and Juliet is about star crossed lovers whose death fixed a problem between the two feuding families. Pearl Harbor and Romeo and Juliet are both very big tragedies based on anger, pitty, and fear. The characters in these two timelines resemble one another. In both stories there was someone looking for trouble. In Romeo and Juliet the Capulets were the ones that thought they were better than everyone else. In Pearl Harbor the Japanese were the ones that were mad and asking for trouble. In Pearl Harbor, the Americans say, “They have woken the sleeping giant.” This is what America was called because we were pleasant and laid-back. The Sleeping Giant symbolizes the Montagues. They were respectful and nice people. They were a lower class than the Capulets, which allowed the Capulets to be arrogant towards the …show more content…

Just like Verona Pearl Harbor was in Hawaii and everybody knows that Hawaii is a beautiful place. In the two movies those places were the main places and where it all happened but there are also other places that the movies go into like for Pearl Harbor it goes to Japan where they bomb them back. Romeo and Juliet there is this place called Mantua and that is where Romeo got banished to and he lived there before he killed himself seeing Juliet dead. In the movies they both were very quick but the shortest was Pearl Harbor it was 2 hours long and Romeo and Juliet lasted over 4 days. The reason why it was only 2 hours for the bombings to happen was the Japanese wanted to just sneak attack us and then get out as quick as possible and we just wanted them to know that we were coming and we were very angry and make them scared of

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