story of Romeo and Juliet is one of conflict between families feelings of love and hate
There are many themes in Romeo and Juliet, which help to make it interesting. Elements such as hate and love contrast greatly and give variety to the play, intriguing its’ audience. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare makes use of this and manipulates certain elements to ensure his audience is enthralled. ... The language of the sonnet keeps changing from language of hate, to language of love and back again helping to create variety and give a sense of turbulence as well as making it interesting for the audience. ... The sonnet in Romeo and Juliet not only serves the purpose of an effective beginning but it also sets the scene and tells the story. ... I think that this is for dramatic effect and also to help the complicated story to make sense. ... The contrasts between the male and female voices help to give variety to the prologue. ... In the line, “Take their life” which flashes on the screen, you can see that the “t” ’s are in the shape of a cross, symbolising death and religion, two themes very evident in Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet. ... Luhrmann shows us even throughout the first scene that religion is supposedly a big part of the Montague’s and Capulet’s lives, this is untrue as both families only care about money. ... Zeffirelli made his film in 1968 and one of his main aims was to get his audience to identify with Shakespeare’s work. A marketplace is one of the mostly likely places that Shakespeare, while staging the play himself, might have chosen. The people buying and selling give emphasis to money, which is a possible reason for the feud between the households of Montague and Capulet. ... In the same way something is born out of the ashes of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. ... In Luhrmann’s film one of the Montague’s had pink hair, a Capulet had a cross shaven into the back of his head and Tybalt also had a tattoo on his back (a sign of aggression. ... In both films symbolism is used to convey disorder and both achieve a sense of conflict, though in different ways. ... Both directors have managed to achieve the sense of hate, conflict and violence Shakespeare strove to create in his writing.