Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Romeo and Juliet - Jason

This is the scene after the capulet mansion party, where Romeo sneaked into the Capulet's orchard trying to see Juliet again. It started of with Juliet's monologue, describing her frustrations and fear that she can never see Romeo again because he is a Montague and she is a Capulet. When Romeo interupted Juliet, he said he is willing to drop his 'Montague' title in order for them to be together.

The Shakespearian play Romeo and Juliet is written nearly 6 centuries ago. So it can be understood why the english it uses is so different from the english we use today. When Mrjabal first shown us the scene from the 'Modern' movie version which i didnt understand clearly at first. After reading it several times, it does kind of resemble to 'modern english'. It is still 'english' but the changes are significant. I think it is partly because societies and enviroments are becoming more civilised which lead to people change in style and world.

Language is used for communication and expressing our emotions in a society. Culture is the key reason why we have different mother tongue and first language. Our background and external influence also has an effect on how you communicate through language.

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