Adaptation Of Juliet And Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet

English ATB 3 Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers who have to risk their lives in order to demonstrate their love and will to stay together, regardless the feud between their families. By the end, the death of Romeo and Juliet finally bring the reconciliation to these two families. It is fate that the two most shall-not meet people fall in love and it love that eventually won against hatred. Since then, there have been many different versions of Romeo and Juliet, whether it was for film, stage, musicals. These different recontextualised adaptions change the original play by many ways, some modernise the language, environment, props as well as changing the original characteristics of some characters. Out of all the different adaptions of Romeo and Juliet, two stood out the most. One was the Romeo and Juliet (1996) and directed by Baz Luhrmann and the other one was Romeo and Juliet Broadway (2013) play version,

However, the largest thing changed was the fate. In the end, when Romeo was about to die, Juliet wakes up but doesn’t have time to stop Romeo from taking the poison; whereas the King production, Romeo dies before Juliet wakes up. The purpose of Juliet to wake up before Romeo dies is to engage the audience and leave the audience with a sense of pity for the two lovers. In this scene, Romeo, crying, says “The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss…” From the quote, fate was highlighted due to the reason that Romeo says that he will seal the doors of breath, meaning that he will kill himself; yet, after he has said this, Juliet’s hand moves, but Romeo did not see. What engages the audience more is the dramatic irony, when the audience knows that Juliet is alive but Romeo doesn’t. This is the major method that the Luhrmann production recontextualises the