Differences Between Romeo and Juliet the Play and the Movie Essay

In every romance or drama movie, the boy meets a girl, boy saves the girl (or vice versa), and then they fall in love. We see this scenario repeated in all sorts of media, but also in our own lives. Why do we fall in love? The answer is not always clear, but one thing for certain is that love is important for us as humans. “The lover” figure exists for us because love is something that all of us are ‘supposed’ to find. Love comes with confusing emotion, characteristics, and feelings. What we…

When considering the interpretation of Shakespearean plays, it is common to find similarities among popular culture through iterations that can be directly linked, such as Hamlet to that of The Lion King in plot and character struggles. Furthermore, this enables for an intriguing investigation in to the works of Disney that may aid in the discovery of all sorts of other Shakespearean plots, and presenting them as a revision of historical pieces of art. For this document, the two works of The…

This way the film was able to portray the Old World much better than how Disney did. An interesting why of displaying the contrast between the Old and New World was how a Powhatan who came with Pocahontas to England was asked “for each Englishman [he] came across, [he is] to place a notch on these sticks.”. It shows the naivety of the Natives, as they believe the English to be like a…

The person I decided to Interview is my younger cousin. Her pseudonym is Rihanna. Rihanna is 16 years old and she is a senior in High School. Her gender is female and her nationality is Pakistani. She was born in U.S.A, then moved to Canada with her family for a few years, she then moved to Pakistan for her middle school, and now she is permanently living here in U.S.A. Rihanna is the second youngest in her family. She has two brothers and two older sisters. Her oldest brother has a Master’s in…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…