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The Romeo and Juliet effect describes the intensification of romantic feelings in relationship when met by parental opposition, as coined by British actor and director Richard Driscoll [1] referencing the protagonists of the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet, whose families were opposed to their union.
For example, Romeo and Juliet's love is a light in the midst of the darkness of the hate around them, but all of their activity together is done in night and darkness while all of the feuding is done in broad daylight. This paradox of imagery adds atmosphere to the moral dilemma facing the two lovers: loyalty to family or loyalty to love. At ...
Originally, "Romeo and Juliet" was a cautionary tale about romantic love; if the kids had obeyed their parents, they would still be alive at the play’s end. But then, Shakespeare wouldn’t have ...
Finally, when the two meet on the balcony, Romeo attempts to use the sonnet form to pledge his love, but Juliet breaks it by saying, "Dost thou love me?" [11] By doing this, she searches for true expression, rather than a poetic exaggeration of their love. [12] Juliet uses monosyllabic words with Romeo, but uses formal language with Paris. [13]
But even if Romeo & Juliet were the most relatable play in the world, the notion of getting teens and twenty-somethings to pack the house for iambic pentameter feels like an uphill battle. That ...
The earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, whose heroic figure is a Habrocomes.The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead. [3]
Juliet Capulet (Italian: Giulietta Capuleti) is the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet. She falls in love with the male protagonist Romeo, a member of the House of Montague, with which the Capulets have a blood feud.
Olivia Hussey, best known for her role in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet" has died at the age of 73. ... "Olivia lived a life full of passion, love, and dedication to the arts, spirituality, and ...