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Summary: In “(Un)safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire,” professional copywriter Karen Backstein, explores the interest of vampire movies in the 21st century and changes made to keep the genre relevant. Backstein believes society and humankind are evolving and rapidly changing, vampires are also evolving so that they can survive and continue to interest people in popular culture. Modern vampires, Backstein notes, work to control their impulses so as not to harm the ‘heroine’, who is strong,…

Romeo + Juliet is a movie about two star-crossed lovers who journey with a relationship between the toils of two families feud, adapted from Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and produced into a film by Baz Luhrmann. The movie details the lives of Romeo and Juliet, who are in love, though caught in the confusion of their families feud. The lovers conceal their relationship, but that doesn’t keep either families from concealing their ‘swords’. Several die in the conquest of…

Capitalism pressures society to consume more and produce more (Magdoff, 2013). In Daybreakers, the vampirism outbreak caused many humans to turn into vampires. The demand for human blood surged and this caused human hunting and farming. Edward’s brother, Frankie, confesses to turning Edward because he does not want his brother to be captured and farmed. This is probably true for many of the existing vampires – they turn others because the human hunt by the capitalists pressured them to. In this…

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy love story of two teenagers amid the traditional feud of the Capulet and the Montague families. The play ends with the untimely demise of Romeo and Juliet and leaves the audience in doubt about the actual cause of their deaths. Throughout the play we see characters that directly and indirectly oppose Romeo and Juliet’s love. On the surface we see how a series of immature decisions made by Romeo and Juliet lead them to kill themselves,…

Blood sucker, dead, predator: These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story…

A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…

How does Shakespeare help the audience understand the changes in Juliet’s Character in Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is undoubtedly one of the greatest romantic tragedies of all time, expressing the story of two passionate and unique star-crossed lovers. However, beneath all the layers of love and Veronese 15th century culture, the reader is plunged into an unfamiliar environment where the two genders are treated and expected to behave in a completely different manner. Whilst…

After reading William Shakespeare’s possibly most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, one may think to themself; “Whose is at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?” In the play, a young man named Romeo Montague and a girl named Juliet Capulet find themselves falling in love and marry shortly after they meet. However, their families are in the midst of a generation’s-old feud. The feud leads to Romeo killing Tybalt Capulet in order to avenge his best friend Mercutio’s death. In response to this,…

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, has fate as the overlying theme since the audience already knows the lovers, Romeo and Juliet, will die. Their fate was given to the audience right from the Prologue, but what Shakespeare intended was for people to understand how the lovers ended up fulfilling this fate. In the early acts, Romeo meets Juliet and their love seems unbreakable, but fate continues to place obstacles in their path making it so that they fulfill…

Lessons in Love In the play everyone knows the main characters develop in many ways, one way they develop is they mature during the play. During the play both Romeo and Juliet mature, but they mature in different ways they both become more like adults and realize and conquer the tough choices they have to make. By the end of the story they are both forced to make the toughest choice of all death. Now, let’s look at how both characters mature and the exact moment when they make that…