Essay Comparing Zeffirelli's Romeo And Juliet

One of William Shakespeare’s most popular and extraordinary poems is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It follows a typical tragedy structure, including tragic heros, Romeo and Juliet, who have a fatal tragic flaw that ultimately drives heros to their demise. The play goes down in history and is loved by many and has been for over four hundred years; numerous people create movie versions and incorporate their own touch with the use of a creative license. Franco Zeffirelli is among those people with his film, Romeo & Juliet. His film does both a great job at giving fantastical visuals and great comprehention to its audience. Nevertheless, it also takes away from Shakespeare’s initial tragedy structure for it eliminates Romeo’s tragic flaw of capriciousness and instead overrides it with fate and destiny. The film gives readers good visuals so they can see turning points in the play, but it also dwells more on fate, taking away from Romeo’s capriciousness.
Zefferelli recreates scenes from the play with outstanding visual and auditory precision, making it easier for those who have not read the play to understand the plot and

Noticing or comprehending mental or emotional changes in a play is hard, such as when Juliet has a mental change after her family turns their backs on her. When she is told to marry the county Paris and she refuses, both her mother and father are upset and refuse to recognize her because she let down such an opportunity unaware that she is already married to Romeo. The nurse also tells Juliet that she should marry Paris and also tells her to forget about Romeo; it is then, when Juliet changes mentally, making the Nurse dead to her for saying something so foul to her ears (3.5.206-236). Those who are reading cannot see such a change easily in the play, but Zeffirelli’s film clearly displays the turning point. The portrayal of this scene in the movie helps one understand what is going on because there is no stage