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The Eve of St. Agnes certainly progresses and ends like a romance. Porphyro, a willful youth, is determined to gain the love of Madeline, who is also searching for love by mystical means; they eventually end up in the same bed, knowing their love will be spurned by their families, and run off together. This motif has a familiar echo to one of Shakespeare's greatest known works, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. But is it so simple? How do these two compare, truthfully? There is something disquieting in the cold wind that blows while the youth fulfill the flames of their passions, in the deaths of the Beadsman and Angela, or the violent dreams of the Baron, forlorn in the loss of his Madeline. Does Keats merely make tribute to this classic idea of young lovers, or is this his personal commentary on their union, harking to an inspirational writer that is essential to the English writing tradition? And is it truly a happy ending? By comparing these two works, one will find that Keats believed the ending to Romeo and Juliet was necessary, and more hopeful than his own. To start this argument, it is best to see how the two works line up in relative similarities. Surely, the basic plot structures remain the same. Porphyro, much like the young Romeo, braves a banquet hosted by his mortal enemies, “the whole bloodthirsty race” (Keats s.11) to find love, woos said love, and runs off to be together and marry. Other small things compare as well; Both authors bestow the title of pilgrim on Porphyro, but admittedly in different ways. This is the first name that Romeo is bestowed by Juliet, “pilgrim” and much like Porphyro, sees his soon-to-belover as possessing saintly qualities (I.4.210-222). Porphyro, ... ... middle of paper ... ... Gray, Erik. "Indifference and Epistolarity in The Eve of St. Agnes." Romanticism 5.2 (1999): 127. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 2 May 2014. Keats, John. “The Eve of St. Agnes”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period. 8th edition. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 888-898. Print. MacCracken, Henry Noble. “The Source of Keats's 'Eve of St. Agnes'”. Modern Philology 5.2 (1907). 145-152. JSTOR. Web. 2 May 2014. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Richard Hosley. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Print.
There are many forces in the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet that are keeping the two young, passionate lovers apart, all emanating from one main reason. In this essay I will discuss these as well as how love, in the end, may have been the cause that led to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Their strong attraction to each other, which some call fate, determines where their forbidden love will take them.
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Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try and emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is done through the renewal of props and costumes, the reconstruction of the prologue and the upgrading of the setting, whilst preserving the original Shakespearean language. Out of the two, it is Luhrmann who targets Romeo & Juliet to a younger audience to a much larger extent than Zeffirelli.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been modified numerous times and has been a source of inspiration for many playwrights and directors. Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann are examples of directors that use Shakespeare’s legendary tragedy as a basis for their films.
In the first few events that happened in the play, the readers have already seen some poor choices Romeo and Juliet made that eventually led to their death. After Romeo learned that Juliet is a Capulet, an enemy of his family, he still chose to go back to the Capulet's house after the party hoping to see a glimpse of her as he asked himself "Can I go forward when my heart is [in the Capulet's]?" (II.i.1-2). Romeo's words reveal that he found the love of his life. He says that he cannot leave because of Juliet. He has to go back to the Capulet's orchard in order to find his h...
Since the protagonist leads the story as a narrator, the loneliness of the narrator is depicted through internal and external conflicts that arise by situations and the feelings of being alone. The first person point of view allows readers to be immersed in her situation easily. For instance, no one gives her love after she gets measles first which further get extended to Porphyria. The narrator’s father does
To conclude, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy due to the tragic elements of Romeo’s thoughtlessness, Juliet’s attachment towards Romeo, and the plot’s dramatic turnabout. The play has both main characters tragically take their own lives, but there is much controversy whether it should be considered a tragedy or just a tragic story. Aristotle’s Poetics clearly outline all of the necessary parts to a tragedy, and Romeo and Juliet fill in those requisites. Despite all controversies, the one agreement everybody can come to is Romeo and Juliet is one of the world’s most beloved work of literature.
In the two texts “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” both by Robert Browning describe the horrific events of two doomed lovers and their mistresses. The text of Duchess tells of a jealous lover who is suspicious of his lover’s smile. His jealousy consumed his life to where the point of where his wife died, either from a murder from her lover or from suicide, that we will never know. In the text of Porphyria by Robert Browning also, describes the suspicion he has when his wife comes home from a night on the town, to which the jealous husband strangles her with he own hair. These disturbing texts reveal the jealously of men when it comes to loving their women. Both of these texts of “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” both share extreme similarities and major differences.
...the horrific incident of his murder to his dearest Porphyria. Finally, the employment of the clever use of irony serves in proving the persona’s inner madness, as what he thinks and does is contrary to what Porphyria has done earlier prior to her death. Though the persona’s execution of his late lover was done to keep his everlasting moment of intimacy with her, the act was still malevolent and evil, and was a poor and foolish attempt in displaying his own affection for his love. In the end, it greatly epitomized his greediness over keeping Porphyria to himself, and his cruelty by taking away her life for his own benefit.
Though Affirmative Action is a current controversial issue, it is far from new; its decree has been long in the making. Perhaps it originates from amendments 13-15, the series of amendments that outlawed slavery, guaranteed equal protection under the law, and forbid racial discrimination when voting, respectively (Sykes 1). The Supreme Court’s decision in 1896, in the case of Plessy V. Ferguson, mandated separate but equal treatment for African Americans (Sykes 1). However, in 1954, the Supreme Court’s decision from Brown v. Board of Education replaced that of the Plessy v. Ferguson trial. President Lyndon Johnson was the first to use the term “Affirmative Action” in the Executive Order 11246 of 1965 (Sykes 1). This order required federal contractors to use affirmative action to make sure people were treated equally, “without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin” (Cahn 1). Two years later, Johnson amended it to include women (Cahn 1). By 1971, President Nixon issued a Revised Order No. 4 that required contractors to adopt an “acceptable affirmative action program” (Cahn 1). Over the past three decades, many debates continue as to whether or not affirmative action still belongs in America.
Romeo and Juliet, a story of a tragic romance between two young lovers. And within the story you find that it is different from the book to the movie. While reading the book you notice some differences between it and the movie. While watching the movie you see one difference and it is that instead of swords like the book they have guns and they called them swords. They did this as a result of the movie is in a more modern time than the book. Another difference is when Mercutio is making Romeo go to the party. In the book he talks him into going to the party. In the movie Mercutio made him take a tablet or pill of some kind to make him go. Still the same as the other difference, still in a more modern era.
In “Porphyria’s Lover”, the speaker in this monologue is living in a cottage when his lover, who seems to be from a higher social class, comes in to see him. As
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Romance. Tragedy. These two classics are filled with both of those characteristics. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Titanic by James Cameron are two classics that everyone knows about. Romeo and Juliet and Titanic suggest that pure love, love that is not a means to an end but is an end in itself, cannot survive in the real world. These two classics have more similarities than we think; some of them are the genres, the settings, and the characters.