Comparison Between William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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All of the different types of interpretations of the first memberial scene, when the Capulets and Montagues talk trash to each other about biting their thumbs at each other, had been unique in their own way. With the first version from 1936 is humorous, the second version from 1976 being sarcastic, the third version from 1968 being more realistic, and finally the last version from 1996 being modern to the original scene of the two groups talking about biting thumbs. All of them though, had still given the idea of what the scene was addressing through tone, stage directions, and notations. audience.
The first version had been more comedic with the acting. The man that was biting his thumb whispering, “ay will we be on the side of the law?”,
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The second version of 1976 had the really cocky Sampson, to where he stood by what he wanted to address to the Montagues, and had more of a click to his thumb to his teeth rather than actually biting his thumb. The fourth version of 1996 had the man nervous toward the gangster and ask jittery about whether or not he should say yes or no to biting his thumb at the man. The third scene had the intonation of it would have seemed like to a real situation to what the scene was showing. The tone of the characters had been rude, but it seemed like it’s what the audience would normally interpret, if it had not been acted out. The stage direction showed the disrespect that each family had each other like the Capulets tripping the Montagues, then starting the fight.
Each scene explained the way that demonstrated how they wanted to express the scene’s meaning, and each one had explained it very weill, but had it’s own twist to it, especially the fourth scene. Humorously, sarcastically, modern, or realistically each scene had uniqueness and the idea of putting it into the audience’s mind to the introduction of Romeo and Juliet and just a glimpse of how the story is going to

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