Romeo and Juliet. Star-crossed lovers whose relationship never stands up to the test of time, but is it possible that Shakespeare’s play is more than just a passion fuelled story of love?
Being over 421 years old you wouldn’t think that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet poses any relevance to our modern society, but by stripping the play down to its core you can see it’s blatantly obvious theme of love. The theme seems to have numerous ties to our contemporary civilization, such as the social issues surrounding forced marriage, and the use of Shakespeare’s archetypal characters in modern films and novels.
Perhaps one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet is based predominately around the theme of love. From the forbidden love …show more content…
They exist everywhere. The supposed stuck-up mean girl at school or the angry elderly man who yells at people to get off of his lawn, there’s just no denying them. Especially in the world of literature where the creation of characters run wild but you can always put them into a category, no matter how hard authors try and design them to be unique. You can thank writers such as Shakespeare for being the first to create such brilliant romance based archetypal characters which would later have every other future author and script writer following in their footsteps. Shakespeare’s own characters, Romeo and Juliet, are the typical star-crossed lovers found in both traditional and modern day films and novels. The eponymous characters found in his play are freakishly similar to Rose and Jack of the ‘Titanic’, the shy upper-class heroine born into a life of luxury and the love-struck male suitor both from opposing families, or in this case: from different social groups. Alongside the main archetypal characters found in romance movies is the typical nosey gossip which, in the case of the play, is found to be Juliet’s nurse. The characters detailed in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ are consistent of the traditional archetypal characters found in popular modern romance movies such as Say Anything, 500 Days of Summer, and most predominately the
Being over 421 years old you wouldn’t think that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet poses any relevance to our modern society, but by stripping the play down to its core you can see it’s blatantly obvious theme of love. The theme seems to have numerous ties to our contemporary civilization, such as the social issues surrounding forced marriage, and the use of Shakespeare’s archetypal characters in modern films and novels.
Perhaps one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet is based predominately around the theme of love. From the forbidden love …show more content…
They exist everywhere. The supposed stuck-up mean girl at school or the angry elderly man who yells at people to get off of his lawn, there’s just no denying them. Especially in the world of literature where the creation of characters run wild but you can always put them into a category, no matter how hard authors try and design them to be unique. You can thank writers such as Shakespeare for being the first to create such brilliant romance based archetypal characters which would later have every other future author and script writer following in their footsteps. Shakespeare’s own characters, Romeo and Juliet, are the typical star-crossed lovers found in both traditional and modern day films and novels. The eponymous characters found in his play are freakishly similar to Rose and Jack of the ‘Titanic’, the shy upper-class heroine born into a life of luxury and the love-struck male suitor both from opposing families, or in this case: from different social groups. Alongside the main archetypal characters found in romance movies is the typical nosey gossip which, in the case of the play, is found to be Juliet’s nurse. The characters detailed in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ are consistent of the traditional archetypal characters found in popular modern romance movies such as Say Anything, 500 Days of Summer, and most predominately the