Multi-Genre Project by Paul Mericsko

27pmericsko — 2024-05-17 12:22:13 UTC

This multi-genre project displays the thematic story of Shakespear's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. The purpose of this project is to provide a different perspective on the regularly told story, and to utilize different genres in order to tell it. In short, the famous Shakespearean tale takes its brave reader through the rollercoaster of an olden-day love story and tells the story of what it's like to be destined for love. The bondage that lovers face among the restlessness which love prevails within the tragic story of love, and the forced feeling to stay, despite the waves of difficulty which ultimately led to tragedy. One of the most prevalent themes of Romeo and Juliet is the trending idea that love can cause immense suffering.

27pmericsko — 2024-05-17 14:31:17 UTC

Once the story of Romeo and Juliet had tied to an end, the characters experienced a period of sorrow after love had ruined their lives. Capulet, while mourning the death of his daughter, Juliet, would listen to this playlist in order to release his mixed feelings of sadness mixed with denial and resentment. To encapsulate this feeling, Capulet can be seen saying, "O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds," (Rom. 5. 3. 202). Capulet was an advocate for the marriage between Juliet and Paris and was eager to see his daughter in the hands of another man, however, when he saw his deceased daughter, an outcry was aloud, and sorrow filled the Capulets. To combat this mourning caused by dense love, (or to worsen it), Capulet listening to the playlist would let his tears stream down his face like the blood of his daughter, Juliet.

27pmericsko — 2024-05-17 14:38:09 UTC

Paris would win the Ignorance Award because of his lack of awareness to the love story which caused the tragedy he was forced into. When Paris meets with Juliet in the Friar's cell, he is unaware of the existent relationship which Juliet has with Romeo. Because of this, he portrays a forced tone in order to tell Juliet that she has to marry him, however, Juliet resists a second marriage which her father is forcing upon her. Paris, ignorant to the chaos of quick pace of love, tells Friar Laurence, " My father Capulet will have it so, And I am nothing slow to slack his haste," (Rom. 4. 1. 2-3). As the story deepens, Juliet, Romeo, and Friar Laurence deepen their grave, and by the end, as the rivals face regret, Paris missed many chapters, and continues to act clueless among a group of mourning royals.

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 03:29:38 UTC

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 03:47:38 UTC

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 05:52:29 UTC

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 06:07:53 UTC

The song, "Where do we go now?" by Gracie Abrams encapsulates the feelings of a one-sided relationship between a lover who enjoyed the chemistry before it ran cold. From this perspective, the listener is emersed in the stop-and-go between moving on, and forgiving her partner, but forgetting that she was the only one contributing. This song connects to the theme of how love can cause immense suffering because once someone had dived into the victories of affection, they often remorse when its gone, and so when love begins to crumble, suffering follows closely behind. In Romeo and Juliet when Romeo is banished, Juliet weeps for their time is limited, and as Romeo escapes through the window of her room, she exclaimed, "Art thou gone so, my lord, my love, my friend!" (Rom. 3. 5. 43). The connection between Romeo and Juliet was cut so deep, that leaving one another brought an intolerable amount of pain for both lovers. Juliet in particular wept for her dear Romeo, and connects to the song "Where do we go now?" because of her existential feeling after her husband, who she just married, left.

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 06:20:43 UTC

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 06:38:44 UTC

The trending theme of Romeo and Juliet stems from Friar Laurence and the plan he created for the star-crossed lovers. When Romeo killed Tybalt, he was banished by the Prince, however, Juliet could not go with him, so Friar Laurence came up with a plan to help Romeo and Juliet run away with each other. However, this plan meant that Juliet would lie in the Capulet family tomb in a coma until Romeo came to rescue her. Unfortunately, many things went wrong with this plan as Romeo did not get the message sent by Friar John, and when he arrived, he believed Juliet was dead, so he drank poison. When Friar Laurence arrived, he begged Juliet to leave with him and said, "Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay," (Rom. 5. 3. 159). If it weren't for Friar Laurence, the tragedy would not have taken place in as much severity, and so this is an example of how destined love led to immense suffering. For that reason, Friar Laurence had a wanted poster made for him in order to hold him accountable for the losses he was responsible for.

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 07:31:32 UTC

27pmericsko — 2024-05-18 18:57:08 UTC

Within the city of Verona, Prince Escalus rarely involved himself in the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. However, when the conflict escalated into the death of significant figures such as Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, Romeo, and Juliet, the Prince intervened in order to separate the rivals. In this case, Prince Escalus came to the Capulet family tomb and witnessed the brutality which love had struck, and so he delivered the sonnet in order to warn them of the dangers of love and lust. Similar to the sonnet, Prince Escalus said, "Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague / See what a scourge is laid upon your hate," (Rom. 5. 3. 291-292). After centuries of fighting over an ideology that was long forgotten, he stepped into the fight to bring peace to both sides, and to stop an even greater tragedy from taking place. However, this would not have been the case if it weren't for the mess which love had put them all through.