Romeo and Juliet

• Titanic: Jack and Rose - history

• Romeo and Juliet - tragic love affair

• Harry Potter: Ron and Hermione - soulmates

• Brokebackmountains - Jack and Ennis - gay

• The thorn Birds: Ralph and Maggie - forbidden love

• The Fault in our stars: Hazel and Gus - illnes

Party, school, uni, workplace, hobbies, social media

Pro:

• shy - easy contact

• 24/7

• Multiple choice

• Familiar with new partner’s life

• Not cringe, if doesn’t work out

Contra:

• catfish

• Money

• First encounter = disappointment

• intelligent

• Supportive

• Sense of humour

• Listening

• Open-minded

• Communicative

• Organized

• Independent

• Healthy

• Frank, sincere

1. Exposition

2. Rising action

3. Climax = turning point

4. Falling action

5. Catastrophe

1. Themes

2. Motifs

3. Symbols

4. Protagonist

5. Antagonist

6. Setting

7. Genre

8. Allusions

9. Style

10. Point of view

11. Tone

12. Foreshadowing

13. Metaphors and symbols

= the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

1. The forcefulness of love

2. Love as a cause of violence

3. The individual vs. Society

4. The inevitability of fate

5. Love

6. Sex

7. Violence

8. Youth

9. Fate

1. most famous love story in the English literary tradition

2. Love = most important and dominant theme, the overriding theme

3. Intense passion springs up at first sight

4. Violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supercedes all other values, loyalties, emotions

5. Lovers and driven to defy their social world:

   • Families

   • Friends

   • Ruler

6. Not a dainty version of emotions

7. Times har to describe

The families are presented = enmity

The first meaning of Romeo and Juliet = party at capuletti house

Balcony scene

Falling in love, secret marriage (nurse and priest)

Romeo kills Tybalt, he is exiled, banishment

Wedding night

Juliet is engaged to Paris, pretending to die

Romeo kills Paris and himself, she dies too = missunderstanding

• getting engaged

• Society standards: man kneels, blessing from the father, ring

• Here: juliet proposes

• Modern times, women married early at shakespears’s times (1595)

• Expectations - sexual encounter

= dawn, light = harsh reality

Night, darkness = safety of the night

• constantly adapting and changing reflecting our changing lives, experiences, cultures

• Change enables us to accommodate new ideas, inventions and technologies

• Not just the words change, the way in which we use them can shift too

• Reasons:

  1. Trade and migration

  2. Technology and new inventions

  3. New meanings

• cultures interact (globalisation), mix and trade = language shifts to accommmodate the changes

• Loanword: words borrowed from other languages

• E.G: Avatar, tsunami, sudoku

• describing things, that didn’t exist before

• Sometime fusion of two existing words = portmanteau words

• E.g: blog (web + log), selfies, podcasts, carbon footprint, email (electonic + mail)

E.g “nice“ = from ‘foolish’ to ‘shy‘, to ‘dainty‘, to ‘delightful‘, ‘giving pleasure or satisfaction‘

• mouse, surf, web

1. Sentence structure = longer sentences

2. Meaning of the word: Mutiny = fight (now: rebellion)

3. Grammar = doth - does

   Dost thou love me? - Do you love me

Pro:

• nice pictures, illustrations help to understand, imagine

• Attract young people

• Language

Con:

• distraction - pictures might Tahoe you away from the story

• Not the original language? - simplifying

• Can’t use the imagination

• No stage/author remarks, directions

• More expensive

• Less aesthetic

• Would Shakespear agree?

Baz Luhrmann

Leonardo DiCaprio

Claire Danes

• Hause of juliet in Verona

• Secretaries of juliet

• Juliets grave in Verona

• Westside story

• Books, plays, movies..

Foreshadowing