The event leading up to Romeo & Juliet’s meeting shows how fate is involved.Fate is shown when by luck Romeo gets an invitation to the ball which he only went because he wanted to see Rosaline, which accidentally led up to the meeting with Juliet, fortunately they rapidly fell in love with each other , unfortunately fate was cruel they were from rival families making their love forbidden which made them love each other even more..
When Romeo & Juliet meet they follow the traditions and language of courtly love. At the time courtly love were only a thing on a paper, nothing but a dream, because their husbands were picked , and divorce didn’t exist at the time , once married it was till death together, woman could never find true love, so the play was a kind of a play to woman at the time. Courtly love is shown in the play at act scene 5 when they see each other and talk. Romeo & Juliet fell in love at first sight, and how when they talk for the first time he gently approaches her and uses religious imagery for flirting”If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”. At Luhrmann’s movie courtly love is also shown by dressing Romeo as a knight and Juliet as an Angel.
The sonnet used in Romeo & Juliet conversation made up with 14 lines with almost every alternating rhymes and 2 rhyming couplets, always using the language of courtly love, example Juliet says” Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.” Romeo says “Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.” Two rhyming ends.
At the end of the scene Romeo and Juliet find out their from rival families, fate once again come in, they passionately fall in love with each other , when they find about their families they feel devastated but it only made the love stronger, here are some examples of quotes of this scene, Romeo “Is she a Capulet? O dear account my life is my foe’s debt” which means that the thing that he loves the most came from his worse enemy, Juliet “My only love sprung from my only hate” which his only love came from her worse hate.
The first thing you notice in the movie is that Zefirelli’s play is set on the renaissance and Luhrmann’s is set on modern days. The features of courtly love is also a big difference, in Zefirelli’s there is a lot of close ups of the Romeo & Juliet , a lot of touching hands and religious imagery, In Luhrmann’s courtly love is shown by dressing Romeo in a knight costume and Juliet as an angel and a lot of modern chatting up.
Basically R&M is a play about a love that will never die, is basically a love that never happens in real life, basically a dream, a gentle forever passion love that we always dream about and the directors show this in many way, by the way they film the movie and they way the actors act.
