A Song And Play Comparison

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A Song and Play Comparison Jade daudt The song ‘they don’t know about us’ by One Direction is similar in comparison to William Shakespears play ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
‘They don’t know about us’ is about a boy and a girl in love but everyone is saying that they are too young to be in love. The boy is telling the girl that he doesn’t care about what the others are saying and that they just don’t understand their desire to be together. The song ‘the don’t know about us’ has 5 lyrical lines that correspond with the concepts and the scenes from the play Romeo and Juliet. “People say we shouldn’t be together, we’re too young to

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