William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
The prologue is read by a News Reporter on television. One line says
from ancient grudge to new mutiny, this shows that the families have
had a grudge for a long time. Another line says civil blood makes
civil hands unclean this means that the fighting is upseting the
public members. Another line says a pair of star cross’d lovers take
their lifes this is talking about Romeo and Juliet.
When the prologue is finished there is a montage of images, the first
image is a statue of Jesus, then the screen turns black with white
writing saying in fair Verona. It then zooms out from the Jesus statue
showing the Capulet building on the left and the Montague building on
the right. This symbolises the only person stood in between the two
families is Jesus. A few blocks in front of the capulet building is
another building with an advert on the side saying: “Retail’d To
Prosterity By Montague” with the Montague logo on it. This shows the
the buisnesses are large rich buisnesses.
The next image is the side of a Police car it says Verona Beach
Police. This shows that the Police are getting involved in the brawls
the families have. There is another clip of a Police helicopter flying
past a different statue of jesus. There is the another image of a man
being arrested.The next image is of the staue of jesus on top of the
building with the helicopter gone.
Most of these images have been taken in the air from a helicopter
because the shots are either looking down on something or looking
straight on at things that are not at ground level. These images could
have possibly been taken from of a different Police helicopter. The
images show what it is like for the public to live in Verona Beach.
There was music in the background, the music used was operatic and
created a dramatic effect to the images.
The next group of images are pictures of newspapers. On the first
that they are from rival houses. Romeo express his love to Juliet and the marry
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star- crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
Romeo and Juliet are two vulnerable and impressionable teenagers who are growing up in ‘fair Verona’ where their families, ‘both alike in dignity’ are engaged in an ‘ancient grudge’ which is erupting into ‘new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil
Everyday there is something that one must interpret whether it is a book, movie, or even the news. One must come to one’s own conclusion about the information they are interpreting. For instance movies are mostly easier to understand then books though the plots may have slight differences.
Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, depicts an ancient feud ended by a pair of star-crossed lovers’ deaths. A lord and lady from warring families seek a forbidden love with guidance from a friar and nurse. Due to a tragic course of mischances and fateful errors, their attempt of eloping led the lovers to a tragic end. Because of rash decisions, the four characters are torn apart by miscalculating events and misunderstandings. Ultimately, the four characters encounter a heartbreaking ending, as a result of their hastiness.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the age of Rome and Juliet’s creation, many values of society were. different from those we observe in modern day life. Women did not have equal rights, fathers had a lot more authority over their children and arranged marriages were still practiced.
Romeo and Juliet Although Romeo and Juliet become inextricably smitten with one another, they both enter into the relationship from different perspectives. Their love is strong, but each has their reasons for the intensity of their love. Romeo has just come out of another ?crush?. He has liked Rosaline for quite awhile, but things do not work out because the feelings are not mutual. Romeo sees that Juliet is a beautiful lady that he falls in love with right away, while he attends the Capulet Party. Juliet also instantly falls in love with Romeo, but it could be more of an escape for her.
wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” From
“He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who falls from a
such a love can arise out of hatred and then triumph over it in death,
His love for Rosaline is great but yet she can not say the same and
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, still-waking sleep, that is not what this is” (Shakespeare 1.1. 179-180). A string of contradictions explain the love story of Romeo and Juliet, a contradiction. Some critics consider this story a tragedy because Shakespeare once wrote; “the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves”. While others say it does not follow the standard Aristotelian form of tragedy (Krims 1). Romeo and Juliet can not be a tragedy because no flaw causes them to fall, the lovers, could not have controlled fate, and family and friends assisted them to their deaths.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet `Romeo and Juliet` is one of the best love stories of all time but although Shakespeare wrote the play, the story wasn't original. It all started hundreds of years before Shakespeare was born, in Italy when myths and folktales travelled about two young lovers from enemy families. After that, a poem was written called `The tragical history of Romeus and Juliet` by Arthur Brooke in 1562. So although Shakespeare's ideas weren't original, he has developed the basic ideas so well that now the whole world are familiar with the deeply touching love story of `Romeo and Juliet`.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is fully summarized in Shakespeare's prologue: "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood make civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers who take their life" (Universal, 1996). This movie is a masterful culmination of the director's phenomenal ability to create a powerful introduction, to select a realistic, but surreal setting, to choose realistic actors, and to enact specialized dramatic effects.
The opening scene of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet will be the scene that I choose to analysis. Elements of plots that could be found in the first scene are exposition, point of attack, discovery and foreshadowing. Each one of these elements will be used to help analysis the scene and make it clear as to what is going on in the mind of Shakespeare.