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sdfg
22:03 Apr 27 2006
Times Read: 541

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“I cannot bound a pitch above all woe. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink” The original play written by Shakespeare is how he sees things and shows a little, more or less about the time period that he lived in. What now and days we consider old, the people back in Shakespeare’s era thought to be new and brilliant. This play by far was one of them, which all people could relate to and identify with. The movie made about Romeo and Juliet in 1996 featured the move modern day scenes. All the emotion and creative settings show the viewers what Shakespeare meant to put it in a simple form. Honor was by far one of the most basic themes in the play alongside with Love. Honor can make or break any kind of situation and bring different outcomes depending on what the emotion level and the intensity of it all.





In the written play it shows how each character is portrayed and how they are respected according to what they have to say. Romeo is a lone star that is droning over his love, Rosaline who by the way he has never met face to face before. His fair cousin Benvolio has tried to stop a fight between two of his men and Tybalt, the Prince of Cats. As the play progresses Marcrutio takes Romeo and his men to a party of the Capulets. There he finds a sweet beauty by the name of Juliet. He falls for her and then finds out they are from different houses, hence creating a disruption of peace and hearts to throb in pain. As the lovers are separated by Romeo slaughtering Juliets cousin they try to come together but by ill fate would have it all is doomed from the beginning. Both lovers end up deal and families lost and broken, die to some rage which they no not of the beginning. The modern movie seems to do the best to portray how each house were equal and how fair both sides seemed to have been. The emotional status of every character and the extreme situation brought height to the play and made it ever more so understandable to realte and to understand. When Mercrutio is killed by Tybalt, Romeo’s outrage and sadness is portrayed well in the movie, the expression and reaction makes the play what it really is. Also how the movie caught the lover’s feelings for one another and made it so captivativating.





The play Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale and to every reader brings on a different meaning and perception. Honor in itself takes on different standards, most not being able to keep because of how easily they seem to slip away. The play is a perfect example of such a thing, Love and emotion which cannot be controlled is bashed because of two families that have an issue from the past suffocating their lives and making a mochary of themselves for it. Honor for family, honor for love and honor for ones self. There is some kind of honor to every thing in life but there can also be downsides to such things. What are the main things that can keep us bound to such a thing called honor, what is it exactly?

english class
05:39 Apr 24 2006
Times Read: 543






1) Romeos friend has gone off and told romeo that Juliet has been dead and the two of them flee back to Verona Italy. Romeo is in doubt that his beloved Juliet could be gone away from him so soon. He and his friend are at her tomb and he is in shock. Looking upon his lover, his wife he cannot believe this is true. Insted of taking his life he stays with Juliet for a while longer before he decides that his death is more to his liking as opposed to be without Juliet. He falls asleep by her side and moments later Juliet awakes and finds that her lover is by her side. She is spell-bound and in awe. She kisses his fair lips and watches as he awakes. They speak of running off togeather and confront Friar Lawerence, he tells them about a town not so far away, but far enough not to create any trouble. Romeo and Juliet run away togeather and Friar Lawerence tells the families that Romeo and Juliet were in fact lovers and that Romeo had taken his life when he learned about Juliets death. The families make a bond and the grudge is vanquished.





2) Romeo and Juliet were typical teenagers by the ways of they thought about Love and want first as opposed to thinking about what they were doing and what might happen to them because of it. They were both young and both naieve. The ways that they were unusual were the fact that everything happened so fast and that both of them had gotten married, but that was only strange because things were different back then, as now you must be 18. It was odd that they had found one another so fast and that their views had changed to quickly, that the thing Love had made them fools for one another.





3) Friar Lawerence influenced the play a great deal. He was they key to Romeo and Juliet, the aiding in the secrecy and everything that happened. Without his planning this play could have ended up with Juliet getting married to Paris and who knows what else could have happened. He was the one who covered for both of them but in the end it ended up stabbing him in the back in the end. His own help and his own light was the death and darkness to both lovers and the families. But also without both of the misfourtons the two families would have never made good with one another and Romeo and Juliet would not be togeather in death with one another.





4) The nurse adds a lot to the play, she is the humor and the end to the uncomfortable silence between characters. She is the one who brings messages between the lovers and gives advice on how to do things. She also brings a certin change of heart when Juliet is forced to marry Paris, by telling her that she is better off for the family to make them happy insted of having Juliet herself being happy with Romeo. The nurse is the tie between the Capulets, Juliet and Romeo hence making her an important character to the play.





5) Five Major Themes:

Love: Love was the moral and key to the whole play, it is what made each and every person do what they did. It is relevent to today under thecircumstances that we all get drawn towards love for different things and different reasons.

Honor: Honor was a major themse in the play, without the honor for either families Juliet and Romeo would have brought ruin to both. This themse is relevant to today because just about every person has some honor for someone or something and it is what keeps us seeing the true light in our decisions.

Time: The timing was off between romeo and juliet, if he could have waited to see her awake before he killed himself they could have lived happily. It relates to today under the means that time can make or break certin things and ties between people and lives.

Family: Family is what kept the two lovers apart. And it is revenent to today on account of family can keep people togeather or split them apart.

Society: Society presented the image between the two families and how the families effected society. It plays the same role today but with a much greater cost and the fact that most people now and days are all seen differently no matter what.





6) I believe that Romeo and Juliets parents would have reacted fine if the circumstances were that they didnt have a lifelong grudge with one another. I believe that they would be happy and could have joined their power and made a stronger family if that happened. But since that was not true all hell was what would have came if neither one of them have died for their love of one another.





7)If i could give advice to Romeo and Juliets parents it would be if they even remember what they were fighting about and ask why they could not be content or human enopugh to work things out. What hurt would it bring to forgive and move on, to live in peace and love knowing that their children were in love with one another and happy. It would to be basicaly to get over whatever woe they had in the past and to move ahead and live in peace for their children and the peoples sakes.





8) Romeo and Juliets marriage is doomed from the start simply from the fact that their families are fueding. Not to mention how quick paced everything is and how much they feel for one another, they are drawn to the mystery of eachother and the knowing of that they shouldnt be togeather draws them closer and makes them want eachother more and more.





9) Romeos love with Rosaline was different from Juliets, only because he never knew how Roseline was in person and the fact that he could NEVER be with her, he became obsessed and depressed, then he sees this beauty and falls for her instantly. Maybe the drus had something to do with it too who knows but never the less he became love obsessed and passionate for Juliet.





10) Violence plays in every part, physical and emotional violence. It is what caused Tybalt to atack romeo and kill Mercrutio and for Romeo to kill Tybalt because of killing Mercrutio. Violence plays in every factor of every life, there is no denying fact about it, but the play had a eye opening effect with it and made it a focal point to bring out the truth.