Gnomeo And Juliet Comparative Essay

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The star-crossed lovers archetype refers to when two lovers are unable to join together due to some reason or conflict, and this style of story has been presented in a variety of different ways throughout history such as novels, poems, and movies. The creator and most famous writer of the star-crosse lover archetype, William Shakespeare, wrote the Shakespearean play known as Romeo and Juliet in the sixteenth century which is still widely known today as a masterpiece. Inspired by Shakespeare’s play, Disney composed their own modern telling of the story in the year of 2011 titled Gnomeo and Juliet, which follows a similar plot and addresses the same archetype. Both the play and the movie share many parallels and differences between each other …show more content…

Both stories begin with a feud between two opposing sides, one being the Montgues and the other being the Capulets, where two youthful characters fall in love at first sight without knowing they are both of opposing families. Due to this conflicting love in both stories, it leads to many tragic events that are similar and different in each telling. In Gnomeo and Juliet, instead of Romeo and Tybalt battling to the death, they race lawn mowers to prove who is more powerful. In one particular scene in the film, Tybalt is chasing Gnomeo on a lawn mover after he invaded into the Capulet garden and the mower crashes into a wall shattering Tybalt, which leads to the Capulet gnomes accusing Gnomeo of his death and chasing him into the road where he gets …show more content…

On the contrary to the play, Paris in Gnomeo and Juliet is chosen for Juliet, however he ends up falling in love with the Nurse and does not die for Juliet like Paris in the play, This is significant because his love for the Nurse instead of Juliet kept him alive in the end, which proves the theme of how passion between people can overcome obstacles. In the beginning of the play, Juliet uses reason and her intellect to make her choices, but as the play progresses, she becomes more dependent on her emotions and passion similar to Romeo. Conversely in the film, Juliet uses her reason more often than not to make her decisions unlike Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, however Juliet in the film ends up surviving with her beloved Gnomeo. This is important because it signifies how Juliet in the play chooses her passion for Romeo over reason, which leads to her death. If she chose reason instead, she would have lived happily like Juliet in Gnomeo and Juliet, thus demonstrating the theme of how passion can be disastrous and cause

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