Inasmuch as Romeo and Juliet's true love ultimately lures them into a premature death, one may readily argue that they completely lost sight of the one thing to which they both aspired. Bibliography lists 8 sources. A 5 page paper comparing of William Shakespeare's original play Romeo and Juliet with the 1996 version directed and produced by Baz Luhrmann. This paper compares the film and the play to determine whether the film reflects an updated version of Shakespeare's original theme, or something else altogether. It concludes that Baz Luhrmann's world view is nihilistic, pessimistic and depressing, completely foreign to anything Shakespeare intended.
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The thesis is argued that while their two stories did indeed have many similarities, Juliet's death was a much more effective one from a literary standpoint as Cleopatra's death was not as striking nor as saddening. Numerous examples from each story are provided to support this point. Bibliography lists 6 critical sources. Enter a few keywords above to describe your term paper topic, then click search. Inc. All research papers are owned by The Paper Store Enterprises, Inc. and are the property of the corporation and our contracted writers.