Romeo & Juliet Multi-Genre Project by Brody Hoover

Dear Reader

27bhoover — 2024-05-13 17:58:48 UTC

In this Multi-Genre, the main theme of Romeo & Juliet is outlined by relating the play to other genres. The genres, including other versions of Romeo & Juliet, movies that display the same theme, and hypothetical text messages between characters outline the theme. This theme is the forcefulness of love. The forcefulness of love is shown in many instances in the book Romeo & Juliet, and many other pieces of media.

Gnomeo & Juliet

27bhoover — 2024-05-15 18:21:52 UTC

"My only love, sprung from my only hate,

Too early seen unknown and too late.

Prodigious birth of love it is to me

That I must love a loathed enemy." (ROM., 1.5, 136-140) This quote comes from the scene in Romeo & Juliet where Juliet shows how torn she is that she must love someone from an enemy family. This connects to Gnomeo & Juliet, as the main characters in Gnomeo & Juliet also come from enemy families and love each other. Despite them being from families that have a generational feud, the forcefulness of love still prevails.

Romeo & Juliet

27bhoover — 2024-05-16 18:29:00 UTC

In Act 5 Scene 3 of Romeo & Juliet, Juliet tries to kill herself with the remaining poison that was drank by Romeo. "O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop

To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them

To make me die with a restorative." (ROM., 5.3, 163-166). This relates to when Lady Montague died from grief after Romeo's banishment. "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath." (ROM., 5.3, 210-211). In both situations, the loss of a loved one caused them to die. This shows just how forceful love is.

27bhoover — 2024-05-17 18:11:45 UTC

In Act 4 Scene 1 of Romeo & Juliet, Juliet talks to Friar Lawrence to come up with a plan so that she can be with Romeo. "Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone; Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off." (ROM., 4.1, 1117). Juliet will do anything that it takes to be with Romeo. The forcefulness of their love is so great that they will go to great lengths to be together.

Pocahontas

27bhoover — 2024-05-20 02:01:50 UTC

In both "Romeo & Juliet" and "Pocahontas," the forcefulness of love is shown through forbidden romance. "My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, Because it is an enemy to thee, Had I it written, I would tear the word," (ROM., 2.2, 55-57) shows the agony of forbidden love as Romeo shows his willingness to abandon his own identity for Juliet. Similarly, in "Pocahontas," the main character and John Smith face barriers from society that forbid their love due to cultural differences. Both stories show the forcefulness of love.

Romeo + Juliet

27bhoover — 2024-05-20 02:26:03 UTC

The 1996 movie, "Romeo + Juliet", and the original play version, both show the theme of the forcefulness of love. In both versions, after Romeo poisons himself and Juliet wakes up, she says, "O Churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them To make me die with a restorative." (ROM., 5.3, 163-166). this moment shows the forcerfulness of Juliet's love for Romeo, in both the movie and the play.