Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Luhrmann

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Act 3: Scene 1, in both Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Luhrmann's filmic version uses distinct language, dramatic and film techniques to communicate the climax of the text clearly to the audience.

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio’s repetition of “a plague o’both your houses” foreshadows the ending of the play. It reiterates the information that is presented to the audience in the prologue. Shakespeare continually refers to fate, and deliberately implies to the audience about the tragic ending, as that is the Elizabethan version of a tragedy. He also uses the Greek Drama genre of tragedy, where the person, or group of people, create their own ending through the course of their actions. He also uses the stage direction of ‘Tybalt