Monday, April 8, 2013

For your blog today, we are going to stray from the rubric a little bit. I don't need you to reference the article you are reading. I need you to reference the play. Please come up with a new situation that you can think to put Romeo and Juliet in without straying from the Shakespeare's themes. For example, in Warm Bodies, the theme of forbidden love is present, but instead of being from rival/feuding families, it is between zombies and humans. Be creative and explain how at least three of the themes would remain consistent.

Alright so say that there's a cop (Romeo) and a criminal (Juliet). So say Benvolio and Mercutio are also cops and want Romeo to come with them on a mission. Romeo winds up arresting Juliet and they fall in love, and obviously that's not suppose to happen, because cops and criminals hate each other. Then Romeo sneaks over to Juliet's prison cell and offers to help her escape, and Juliet says yes. Juliet's convinces her cell mate to help them escape, and they do. SoTybalt's apart of Juliet's little gang or something. Tybalt wants to kill Romeo because Romeo arrested Juliet, but he doesn't know that Romeo has helped Juliet escape from jail. Tybalt tries to fight Romeo, but gets into a fight with Mercutio instead and kills Mercutio. Romeo then kills Tybalt, and Juliet's little gang of criminals say that if they ever see him near their streets again they'll kill him.

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