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Love Is A Smoke Made With The Fume Of Sighs

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Romeo & Juliet Reflection “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” (R&J 1.1.181) The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has shown the readers the bitterness along with the passionate love. The messages which Shakespeare tried to bring to the readers made the play be a timeless classic for tragedy. It gives people similar but slightly unlike understandings from the particular point of views. The different movie versions and paintings take inspiration from the original play, but at the same time, they have their own interpretation to emphasize. From the last scene of the play as a whole, they all want to tell people that the impatience and rush will bring illusion on what people really feel, that urgency and lack of communication may make the people who are involved get hurt. More sadly, the most innocent person always gets hurt the most. Zefferelli’s version demonstrates the “violent love” will have “violent ending”, and that love brings the most damage to the most innocent person involved, which is Juliet. Outside the cemeterial vault where Juliet’s “body” was placed, it is very foggy and dark, there are only a few torches around. Inside the vault, Juliet is surrounded by darkness, dust, and her ancestors’ bodies and skeletons. It’s easy to conclude how much Juliet has sacrificed for her love. As a not yet 14-year-old girl, Juliet has to stay in such a terrifying place by herself and she has no other choice. Romeo was too eager to see

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