Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Versus Baz Luhrmann's Version of the Play: Relationship Between Juliet and her Parents in Act 3 Scene 5

Romeo and Juliet is a play created by a famous playwright called William Shakespeare. Baz Luhrmann adapted the play to create a modern version of Romeo and Juliet in 1996. There are many similarities and differences in how Baz Lurhmann and Shakespeare portray the relationship between Juliet and her parents. There are many times in the scene how Shakespeare uses language, structure and form to present the relationship between Juliet and her parents, while Baz Luhrmann reveals this relationship using different camera angles and diegetic and non diegetic sounds and shot types.

Shakespeare portrays the horrific relationship between Juliet and Lady Capulet as Juliet uses words cleverly to deceive her mother. Line 93-94 ‘dead-is my poor heart’. Lady Capulet thinks that Juliet is saying that Romeo makes her sad because, he killed Tybalt, but she means that she’s sad because he left. This easy type of deception shows that Lady Capulet and Juliet may not have a close relationship, and Lady Capulet does not know Juliet very well. Shakespeare uses hyphens to indicate a pause which could totally mean a different thing. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to his advantage so that the audience knows what Juliet is talking, while Lady Capulet only knows a limited amount of information. Luhrmann totally cuts this part of the scene out. The effect of Luhrmann cutting this part of the scene out of the play is that the audience will not be able to identify Juliet deceiving her mother meaning that the relationship between Lady Capulet and Juliet is closer in the film. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony and Form to display the fact that Juliet is deceiving her mother, as the audience knows what she is talking about while, Lady Capulet does not know what...

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...however it is better in the play as he doesn’t get angry with his daughter quickly and doesn’t fly into an incandescent rage when she denies him. He also tries to give the news to Juliet about her getting married by saying a poem. We can observe that the relationship between Lady Capulet and Juliet is not very good in the play but the relationship is very good in the film as Lady Capulet gets hurt for Juliet when Capulet is shouting at Juliet, the moment where Juliet deceives her mother is not shown in the film, and also when Lady Capulet makes the comment of her daughter being dead, Juliet tries to hold back tears. From this we can observe that the relationship between Juliet and her parents is shown to the audience by Shakespeare using different styles of writing, structures of sentences such as the hyphen, dramatic irony and he also uses iambic pentameters