Romeo and Juliet Language Analysis
Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1595 it was set in Verona, Italy. The film I watched was the classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montague’s and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. There are obstacles on the way, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and many fights. But although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers".
My first impression of the language used was it was very hard to understand. It was a lot easier to understand during the love scenes as the characters spoke very slowly and clearly "Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow." Whereas in the fighting scenes there was a lot more action and the characters spoke very quickly and it was quite difficult to understand what they was saying. I think on first reading it is quite hard to follow the story as the language is very different from how it is today. Watching the film definitely helped to understand what was happening as it was very visual so even if you didn’t understand something that was said the actions would illustrate it. As it was modernised cars and guns were used instead of horses and swords as it was modernised it was easier to relate to.
