Author: alistair

Romeo and Juliet Essay Plan

The Question I will be doing is: How does Baz Luhrmann keep the spirit of Elizabethan theater alive in his Film Interpretation, Romeo + Juliet

The Introduction.

In the Introduction I will be stating the question that I will be hopefully answering and a summary of how i’m going to go about this.

Paragraph 1.

The first paragraph i’m going to state the most obvious part of Elizabethan play they brought into the Film, the original script. I will be also talking about how the actors exaggerate the language when they are speaking.

Paragraph 2.

This Paragraph I will be looking at the set and how it represents the Elizabethan times and how it effects the film and how it adds atmosphere. I should come to a conclusion for this paragraph if it improves the film or just affects nothing.

paragraph 3.

This is going to be the paragraph were I write about how the film keeps the faith side of the original play and shows Christianity not in a good light but not in a bad light because if William Shakespeare put anything in his plays that was blasphemous he would probably been put in prison for being a mental case so Baz decided to keep to what Shakespeare was doing.

Paragraph 4.

The subject of this paragraph is the use of  subtitles to replace soliloquy because in the play they use this. talking to the camera (the audience) is not so effective so Baz Luhrmann decided to put it as subtitles so i’m going to investigate if this was a good or bad idea.

Conclusion.

This is pretty much were I answer the question and summaries my writing.

Metaphor Analysis

Romeo:From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!

Romeo says that god has lost his way and that this the end for him and his love. He also seems to be saying that like disgusting tastes.
The way I see he uses words to do with taste to show gods lost his way is by this quotation.
“Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!”
For Romeo to be describing god as lost and saying this is to my love he’s saying that god has chosen a very sad
fate for Juliet.