Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

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.

The stories of Romeo and Juliet and Titanic have the same genre. They both end in tragedies, and they are both romantic. Tragedies include a catastrophe and tragic flaws. Romances include love and relationships. The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet is when Romeo and Juliet both kill themselves so they wouldn’t have to live without each other. The tragedy in Titanic is when the ship sinks after it hits the ice berg. In Romeo and Juliet, only a few people died, and the deaths were scattered all throughout the story. In Titanic, everyone died at once when the ship sank.

The settings between Romeo and Juliet and Titanic are quite different, though. The setting in Romeo

and Juliet was set in Verona, Italy, and took place in the 1600’s. The setting in Titanic was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and happened in the early 20th Century. Also, Romeo and Juliet talks in Old English and ends in suicide, but Titanic is in modern day English, and ends with the ship crashing.

The characters area of Romeo and Juliet and Titanic have lots of both similarities and differences.

As similarities, both stories center on star-crossed lovers; they come from different classes/levels, and in both stories, the man comes from a lower class, and the lady comes from royal society. Both of the ladies in the stories were being forced to marry another man, even if she loved someone else. Examples of differences are when in Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet die, while only Jack dies in Titanic. In Romeo and Juliet, only a few characters die, and all their deaths are scattered throughout the book, while in Titanic, lots of people die, and they all die at once when the ship hit the iceberg and sinks. In Titanic, the upper and lower classes did not want to kill each other - like in Romeo and Juliet - they just treated them

poorly.

Once again, the two classic stories, Romeo and Juliet and Titanic have more similarities than we realize, but they are sometimes hidden so we can find them on our own and understand them better. All in all, these two classics have many similarities between genres, the settings, and the characters. These facts go to show that the two classic stories can be connected in many ways.