“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”, said by Emily Kimbrough. The film “Who Am I This Time?” covers the steps of a relationship and demonstrates it through the two people with different personalities, Harry and Helene. The viewer of the film can see how the relationship unfolds between the two and how they overcome their personality issues for one another. By the end of the film, one is left to interpret how the relationship will work out between the two main characters.
Initiating is the first step in a relationship when contact is first made. Helene and Harry can have been seen having their first contact when Harry walks in during Helene’s audition for the new play in the town.
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After the final performance of the play, Helene holds Harry hand to force him to stay instead of him running off like always when the curtain drops. Helene gives Harry a present. The present was Romeo and Juliet, where she made point out her favorite scene. The two started reading it together. The scene from the movie is full of nonverbal contact. While Helene was reading, Harry was looking at her passionately. Harry reads and gets into character and they both look to be having a really good time. Other people around them notice, and start to call them lovebirds and the talk of the two spread around the …show more content…
Harry and Helene have very different personalities and their own personality struggles within themselves, which conflict occasionally with the building of their relationship. The initiating stage is seen when Helene is auditioning and Harry interrupts. The two are at the experimenting stage of their relationship when Helene brings a lunch for the two during a practice and they share some small talk, such as Harry revealing about his mother to Helene. The intensifying stage is interpreted that the two become good friends over the course of practicing and preforming the play. The two are identified as a couple during the integrating stage after the final performance and the two read Shakespeare together. The final stage we see in the film is the bonding stage, where Harry proposes to Helene. The film ends with the viewer wondering how the marriage will work out between the two, which I believe that it will not. The film “Who Am I This Time?” makes the viewer aware of the steps in a relationship and aware how the steps affect us in real
Lust or Love: An Essay Analyzing the Relationship of Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
Have you ever fallen in love with the wrong person? How about falling in love with your family’s worst enemy? This tragedy happened to Romeo and Juliet, two adolescents that were doomed to unhappiness since the moment they were born. Two powerful and respectable families that have had hatred for each other for so long that the reason for how their hatred began is forgotten. Romeo and Juliet were the ones who had to pay the consequences for their families’ feud. Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation is both faithful and unfaithful to mise-en-scène in the beginning, middle, and end of the scene.
The structure of `Translations' builds slowly towards this brief and brilliantly hesitant, pivotal love scene of Act Two scene II. It is central to the play both dramatically and conceptually. Translation and communication are the key themes.
Romeo and Juliet presents an ongoing feud between the Montague and Capulet families whose children meet and fall in love. Markedly, the meeting scene depicting love at first sight continues to be praised by today’s critics. Romeo and Juliet then receive the label of star-crossed lovers whose tragic demise is written in the stars. In fact, Shakespeare 's work is well received and its numerous adaptations have made it one of his most enduring and notorious stories. The cinematic world brings to the screens a disastrous approach by Baz Luhrmann to do the play justice. A glance at Baz Luhrmann’s productions allows audiences to assume he delivers movies which are unlike those of any other filmmaker today, or perhaps ever. Therefore, blending a delicate
William Shakespeare's highly acclaimed play 'Romeo and Juliet' explores 'two star-crossed' lovers declaring undying love for one another, juxtaposing the hate and the violence of the two feuding households. Their forbidden love leads to tragic consequences, such as their 'untimely death'. However, against the backdrop of hate blood and 'mutiny' lies the pure, innocent love of Romeo and Juliet. The plays most famous love scene, act 2 scene 2, shows these young lovers expressing an undying love.
Fenstad says that he likes to teach because “he liked teaching strangers and because he enjoyed the sense of hope that classrooms held for him” (page 117). Harry seems to be a very distant person in that he likes to be around people who do not really know him. He would much rather be an observer than a very active participant. When he goes ice skating in the beginning of the story, there are a lot of people who are skating, but he can blend right in. He hs a few friends, but they are very similar to Fenstad. They like the same things and have the same attitudes about life. Fenstad does not want to seem to deviate from his own normal way of life.
Dalloway. Kate Haffey wrote a great article entitled, “Exquisite Moments And The Temporality Of The Kiss In Mrs. Dalloway AND The Hours”, where she discusses the temporality of time and the kiss between Clarissa and Sally. According to Haffey, “[T]he kiss between Clarissa and Sally [is] a moment that temporarily interrupts her inevitable movement towards marriage and reproduction” (137); the kiss is not only a moment expanded upon in the novel, but it can be expanded upon past that. Just as Edwards said about lesbianism not being very well-known about at the time, this kiss breaks away from that idea of marriage and children. That idea makes the moment expansive. Haffey also states, “[The kiss] seems to upset or rupture the forward flow of time in narrative” (138). Haffey is saying that the moment that the kiss happens, everything seems to stop for a second. The flow of the story sort of stops and the reader might be wondering what is going on. The kiss turns into one of those moments that last longer than just a second. One final thing Haffey mentions is that, “the kiss, as constructed in Woolf’s text, offers strange and unpredictable forms of temporality” (138). Not only does the kiss interrupt the flow of the narrative, as Haffey previous mentioned, but it makes the reader wonder where the story is heading next. This one moment alone is very significant when it comes to the
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a play commonly viewed and known as a true love story; however, after analyzing several hints portrayed by the protagonists, it is evident that Shakespeare did not intend to make Romeo and Juliet seem like a true love story but a criticism of how superficial society’s view on love is.
Romeo first notices Juliet during her parents' banquet, which causes them to fall in love at first sight. His reaction in Act I, scene IV illustrates that Juliet's appearance significantly affects him: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night. As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear- Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! (Act I, scene IV, 45-48). Romeo swiftly decides that he is in love with Juliet though he hasn’t spoken to her yet. Juliet is more sensible and declines his first moves, but soon lets him kiss her. At this time, the feelings of both lovers look to be the same. Nevertheless, fate checks their loyalty by revealing their identities. Juliet is a Capulet, and Romeo a Montague, which is an unearthing that shocks them both, but they do not doubt the love they have together. In fact, this leads the reader to accept their love as genuine. In final, their compassion and devotion towards one another is too strong for it to be lust, which proves they are in true love.
The next act includes the balcony scene where Romeo and Juliet plan for their marriage. In Luhrmann’s version of the play, little time is spent on an actual balcony but rather in a pool of
Capulet and Romeo Montague, face a bigger problem; forbidden love. Taking place in Verona, an ignorant Romeo first meets a childish Juliet at the Capulet’s party. Romeo and his kinsman, Benvolio, attend the party masked, searching for his first love, Rosaline. Coincidentally, Romeo meets Juliet, a new beauty, and falls in love with her not knowing the fact that she is a Capulet. The feud continues, leading one mistake after another, until both families realize their selfishness at the last minute. The unfortunate tragedy of two “star-crossed lovers” is ironically caused by the impetuosity of Romeo and Juliet themselves (Shakespeare 7).
The movie “Shakespeare in Love” shows the business process of theater, along with Shakespeare’s struggles in his career and love life. Shakespeare in Love is a fictional account of the life that inspired the play Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the movie there are scenes, which you can relate to modern times comical irony devious behavior manipulation and how everything does not matter in the case of love. The story is perfect and ties together all the parts of the actual play and what may have really happened to the life of Shakespeare. The writers produced an imaginative romantic comedy in the style of Shakespeare that is very believable. They bring the viewer along for a fictitious account of what may have motivated Shakespeare to write one of the greatest plays of all times. This film captures the coarseness and bawdiness of the period as well as its soaring poetry. It places Shakespeare’s world in a modern context and makes it accessible, without diminishing the impact of his words.
This scene focuses on the grown maturity of love between Romeo and Juliet. The love between Romeo and Juliet can be described as an overpowering almost violent force wrought with overflowing passion that takes precedence over all other values, social loyalties or feelings. In a sense, this particular scene is a reverse balcony scene where Romeo must leave instead of Juliet. The lovers placate each other through reversals of thought, giving in to each other’s will. The willingness to give anything for every second together including death is the essence of the scene. Romeo lacks the capacity for moderation of emotions and feelings.
The film Shakespeare In Love is a very complex but straightforward plot. Where William Shakespeare was mandated to compose a play right at the moment when his imagination was minimal. Frustrated and looking for inspiration, he met a beautiful lady with the name of Viola de Lessups bumping his creativity giving birth to the so famous play “Romeo and Juliet.” The set of the events along with the actions Shakespeare and Viola take and the reactions they produce form the narrative of the film a long with the mise-se-scene made out of the movie a hit in Hollywood by capturing the attention of the audience with the combination of different artistic choices.
The classic love story of Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare that will never be forgotten. This is a story about two “star-crossed lovers” who come from two families that are rivals, which challenges their relationship and they die as a sacrifice for each other and their families. Many people have produced traditional and nontraditional versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play. These versions have enhanced the play in a way that the feud between the families is more intense, making their love stronger, but it also takes away from the theme that love conquers all.