“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”, said by Emily Kimbrough. The film “Who Am I This Time?” covers the steps of a relationship and demonstrates it through the two people with different personalities, Harry and Helene. The viewer of the film can see how the relationship unfolds between the two and how they overcome their personality issues for one another. By the end of the film, one is left to interpret how the relationship will work out between the two main characters.
Initiating is the first step in a relationship when contact is first made. Helene and Harry can have been seen having their first contact when Harry walks in during Helene’s audition for the new play in the town.
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After the final performance of the play, Helene holds Harry hand to force him to stay instead of him running off like always when the curtain drops. Helene gives Harry a present. The present was Romeo and Juliet, where she made point out her favorite scene. The two started reading it together. The scene from the movie is full of nonverbal contact. While Helene was reading, Harry was looking at her passionately. Harry reads and gets into character and they both look to be having a really good time. Other people around them notice, and start to call them lovebirds and the talk of the two spread around the …show more content…
Harry and Helene have very different personalities and their own personality struggles within themselves, which conflict occasionally with the building of their relationship. The initiating stage is seen when Helene is auditioning and Harry interrupts. The two are at the experimenting stage of their relationship when Helene brings a lunch for the two during a practice and they share some small talk, such as Harry revealing about his mother to Helene. The intensifying stage is interpreted that the two become good friends over the course of practicing and preforming the play. The two are identified as a couple during the integrating stage after the final performance and the two read Shakespeare together. The final stage we see in the film is the bonding stage, where Harry proposes to Helene. The film ends with the viewer wondering how the marriage will work out between the two, which I believe that it will not. The film “Who Am I This Time?” makes the viewer aware of the steps in a relationship and aware how the steps affect us in real
Harry and Sally entered the initiating stage, or the point in a relationship where one indicates that they would like to form a relationship with the other typically through introducing themselves, several times throughout the movie. Harry and Sally are aware that they are in this stage because they both make the effort to introduce themselves and begin some sort of relationship, no matter how informal. The first
The plays starts with the two friends together, Valentine is getting ready to leave for the court of Milan, and is chastening his friend Proteus to accompany him, and leave Julia the girl he loves, and the dull life of home "Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home" (1.1.7). Proteus being love struck is willing at this point to stay at home, and let his friend leave alone. Showing at this point that love does outweigh friendship. After Valentine leaves, Proteus's father is persuaded to make his son seek out his future away from home also.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragic play about two star crossed lovers written by Shakespeare in 1595. The play is a timeless teenage tradgedy. “The play champions the 16th Century belief that true love always strikes at first sight,” (Lamb 1993: Introduction) and even in modern times an audience still want to believe in such a thing as love at first sight. Act II Scene II the balcony scene displays that romantic notion perfectly.
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet is a film that converts Shakespeare’s famous play into a present-day setting. The film transforms the original texts into modern notions, whilst still employing Shakespearean language. Compared to Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann’s picture is easier for a teenage audience to understand and relate to because of his modernisations. Despite the passing of four centuries Shakespeare’s themes of love, hate, violence, family and mortality remain the same regardless of the setting.
The first concept we choose to write on is initiating. According to the book Looking Out Looking In, initiating is the first stage of a relationship, and it means to show interest in another person and to give signals that shows interest building up some kind of relationship. (Alder, 2012) In the movie one of the scenes where the concept of initiating is displayed is when Brooke is staring at a baseball game and Gary was sitting near her. Suddenly Gary offers Brooke a hot dog, after insisting several times she finally gets the hot dog. After the baseball game Gary invites Brooke to a date.
One of the first scenes of the movie was an example of the first stage, initiating. After Luke Collins rode a bull for the complete eight seconds, he was chased by him. Dropping his hat next to Sophia Danko, making long eye contact. She then tried to give it back to him, but he told her to keep it. Later that night
Capulet and Romeo Montague, face a bigger problem; forbidden love. Taking place in Verona, an ignorant Romeo first meets a childish Juliet at the Capulet’s party. Romeo and his kinsman, Benvolio, attend the party masked, searching for his first love, Rosaline. Coincidentally, Romeo meets Juliet, a new beauty, and falls in love with her not knowing the fact that she is a Capulet. The feud continues, leading one mistake after another, until both families realize their selfishness at the last minute. The unfortunate tragedy of two “star-crossed lovers” is ironically caused by the impetuosity of Romeo and Juliet themselves (Shakespeare 7).
Romeo first notices Juliet during her parents' banquet, which causes them to fall in love at first sight. His reaction in Act I, scene IV illustrates that Juliet's appearance significantly affects him: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night. As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear- Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! (Act I, scene IV, 45-48). Romeo swiftly decides that he is in love with Juliet though he hasn’t spoken to her yet. Juliet is more sensible and declines his first moves, but soon lets him kiss her. At this time, the feelings of both lovers look to be the same. Nevertheless, fate checks their loyalty by revealing their identities. Juliet is a Capulet, and Romeo a Montague, which is an unearthing that shocks them both, but they do not doubt the love they have together. In fact, this leads the reader to accept their love as genuine. In final, their compassion and devotion towards one another is too strong for it to be lust, which proves they are in true love.
William Shakespeare's highly acclaimed play 'Romeo and Juliet' explores 'two star-crossed' lovers declaring undying love for one another, juxtaposing the hate and the violence of the two feuding households. Their forbidden love leads to tragic consequences, such as their 'untimely death'. However, against the backdrop of hate blood and 'mutiny' lies the pure, innocent love of Romeo and Juliet. The plays most famous love scene, act 2 scene 2, shows these young lovers expressing an undying love.
Fenstad says that he likes to teach because “he liked teaching strangers and because he enjoyed the sense of hope that classrooms held for him” (page 117). Harry seems to be a very distant person in that he likes to be around people who do not really know him. He would much rather be an observer than a very active participant. When he goes ice skating in the beginning of the story, there are a lot of people who are skating, but he can blend right in. He hs a few friends, but they are very similar to Fenstad. They like the same things and have the same attitudes about life. Fenstad does not want to seem to deviate from his own normal way of life.
Love, lust and infatuation all beguile the senses of the characters in this dreamy and whimsical work of Shakespeare, and leads them to act in outlandish ways, which throughly amuses the reader. True love does prevail in the end for Hermia and Lysander, and the initial charm of infatuation ends up proving to have happy consequence for Helena and Demetrius as well. Even when at first the reader thinks that, in theory, the effects the potion will wear off and Lysander will once again reject Helena, Oberon places a blessings on all the couples that they should live happily ever after.
William Shakespeare has provided some of the most brilliant plays to ever be performed on the stage. He is also the author of numerous sonnets and poems, but he is best known for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I would like to discuss the play and movie, "Romeo and Juliet", and also the movie, Shakespeare in Love. The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is set in the fictional city of Verona. Within the city lives two families, the Capulets and the Montegues, who have been feuding for generations.
Dalloway. Kate Haffey wrote a great article entitled, “Exquisite Moments And The Temporality Of The Kiss In Mrs. Dalloway AND The Hours”, where she discusses the temporality of time and the kiss between Clarissa and Sally. According to Haffey, “[T]he kiss between Clarissa and Sally [is] a moment that temporarily interrupts her inevitable movement towards marriage and reproduction” (137); the kiss is not only a moment expanded upon in the novel, but it can be expanded upon past that. Just as Edwards said about lesbianism not being very well-known about at the time, this kiss breaks away from that idea of marriage and children. That idea makes the moment expansive. Haffey also states, “[The kiss] seems to upset or rupture the forward flow of time in narrative” (138). Haffey is saying that the moment that the kiss happens, everything seems to stop for a second. The flow of the story sort of stops and the reader might be wondering what is going on. The kiss turns into one of those moments that last longer than just a second. One final thing Haffey mentions is that, “the kiss, as constructed in Woolf’s text, offers strange and unpredictable forms of temporality” (138). Not only does the kiss interrupt the flow of the narrative, as Haffey previous mentioned, but it makes the reader wonder where the story is heading next. This one moment alone is very significant when it comes to the
Hermia and Lysander are forbidden by their families, Helena and Demetrius qquwkare engaged to different people. Bottom and Titania both love each other despite the circumstances. Shakespeare shows that anything can happen in a dream, as a dream is not natural. Love is not only apparent in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but also in anyone of Shakespeare’s plays. Love is found everywhere and is the conflict to almost every good film. The recipe for a good tale is one with a protagonist who has a love interest. From The Titanic to Scarface, from The Great Gatsby to The Scarlet Letter, love can be found in each of these masterpieces. It is what grasps the audience’s attention. A decent love story can make someone feel alive, heartbroken, or exasperated. What is life without love? A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an existing tale that contradicts Geisel’s opinion. It shows that even sometimes, dreams are better than
The classic love story of Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare that will never be forgotten. This is a story about two “star-crossed lovers” who come from two families that are rivals, which challenges their relationship and they die as a sacrifice for each other and their families. Many people have produced traditional and nontraditional versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play. These versions have enhanced the play in a way that the feud between the families is more intense, making their love stronger, but it also takes away from the theme that love conquers all.