Violent Delights In Romeo And Juliet
Areeba Hasan
MYP Theatre 5B
Violent Delights With Violent Ends
They say as a part of today’s generation, it is our responsibility to create history rather than to repeat it. But some history is just too sensational that it must be repeated again. Such a momentous event happened to occur by the hands of William Shakespeare in 1595 as he wrote the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet. A story of star crossed lovers who because of the enmity between their families were unable to meet. Even though such a story cannot be repeated, there have been numerous replications in many forms including movies. In 1968, the movie Romeo and Juliet directed by Franco Zeffirelli was released. 28 years later in 1996, the movie Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann …show more content…
In the first place, Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet was two complete characters. In the Zeffirelli’s version, she was what you’d expect a high class woman to be like. She doesn’t get too happy, was always standing straight, stern in her speech, and very proper. I liked her character since it’s what a lord’s wife is supposed to be like. The second version showed this mother way too self-centered. Her behavior should’ve been as someone of high status. I hated the way she was introduced to the audience with this bold attitude, clothing, and her absurd makeup. Frankly, the way she applied the dark lipstick was even more ridiculous. She was also very oblivious to her daughter. Lady Capulet doesn’t even look at her daughter when she is asking her to like Paris unlike the Lady Capulet in Zeffirelli’s version who used her finger to raise her daughter’s face and stared into her eyes as if looking through her soul. It felt like she was being forced to even talk to her about the topic in the first place. In the first version, she didn’t seem really obsessed with Paris. She could feel her daughter’s pain when she rejected to marry Paris. I saw it in her facial expressions, but her value towards obedience pulled her back. In the second version, Paris was her own personal interest that really disgusted me. This is your daughter’s to-be husband! Also, just before Juliet is to drink the poison, Lady Capulet enters in her bath robe. Her conversation with Juliet made her more like any simple everyday mother. I found that confusing and quite absurd. It was such a dramatic change from the Cleopatra mother to this everyday mother. I, for one wasn’t ready for that and it was confusing. Lady Capulet was a side character and her personality didn’t need to be made so complex. Rather, she should just be a character easily defined by one trait. Secondly, Romeo
MYP Theatre 5B
Violent Delights With Violent Ends
They say as a part of today’s generation, it is our responsibility to create history rather than to repeat it. But some history is just too sensational that it must be repeated again. Such a momentous event happened to occur by the hands of William Shakespeare in 1595 as he wrote the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet. A story of star crossed lovers who because of the enmity between their families were unable to meet. Even though such a story cannot be repeated, there have been numerous replications in many forms including movies. In 1968, the movie Romeo and Juliet directed by Franco Zeffirelli was released. 28 years later in 1996, the movie Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann …show more content…
In the first place, Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet was two complete characters. In the Zeffirelli’s version, she was what you’d expect a high class woman to be like. She doesn’t get too happy, was always standing straight, stern in her speech, and very proper. I liked her character since it’s what a lord’s wife is supposed to be like. The second version showed this mother way too self-centered. Her behavior should’ve been as someone of high status. I hated the way she was introduced to the audience with this bold attitude, clothing, and her absurd makeup. Frankly, the way she applied the dark lipstick was even more ridiculous. She was also very oblivious to her daughter. Lady Capulet doesn’t even look at her daughter when she is asking her to like Paris unlike the Lady Capulet in Zeffirelli’s version who used her finger to raise her daughter’s face and stared into her eyes as if looking through her soul. It felt like she was being forced to even talk to her about the topic in the first place. In the first version, she didn’t seem really obsessed with Paris. She could feel her daughter’s pain when she rejected to marry Paris. I saw it in her facial expressions, but her value towards obedience pulled her back. In the second version, Paris was her own personal interest that really disgusted me. This is your daughter’s to-be husband! Also, just before Juliet is to drink the poison, Lady Capulet enters in her bath robe. Her conversation with Juliet made her more like any simple everyday mother. I found that confusing and quite absurd. It was such a dramatic change from the Cleopatra mother to this everyday mother. I, for one wasn’t ready for that and it was confusing. Lady Capulet was a side character and her personality didn’t need to be made so complex. Rather, she should just be a character easily defined by one trait. Secondly, Romeo