Romeo and Juliet

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Guidelines:

  1. The paper must have a title— be creative but stay on point!
  2. The paper must have developed introductory and concluding paragraphs.
  3. The paper’s thesis must address your stance on whether you agree, disagree, over even are mixed between the two towards the director’s technical choices throughout the film and why? A more straightforward statement is: Do you believe they did the play “justice” through their adaptation as a whole? How so?
    a. This “why”/ “how so” is where you discuss what you’ve chosen to specially examine about the film itself
    b. *See below for the list of possible topics to explore.
  4. The paper’s body must discuss/ examine all the following:

a. A synopsis of your chosen Shakespeare play:
i. For example: Is it a comedy or a tragedy? What is it about? Where does it take place? What’s are some of the notable themes within it? Etc.
b. Your chosen film and the background of the film:
i. For example: The film’s budget, year release date, reception, significance of its release date—for instance, why does an adaption of one of Shakespeare’s plays show up in 1996? Any notable actors and actresses? Etc.

c. *3-4 credible film reviews (not opinionated blog posts)
i. Your film reviews may agree, disagree, or may lie between a neutral area to help support your own stance on the director’s adaptation.
ii. *See https://guides.temple.edu/english822 for a film review database.
iii. *If your chosen film doesn’t have many reviews on the site (specifically for the case of Rupert Goold’s Macbeth), you may ask me for assistance in finding credible reviews.

d. *A discussion of what film techniques you want to examine to support your stance(s)/ views:
i. Some of them may include the director’s choice of the following, such as, but not limited to:
➢ Overrepresented/ Overlooked Themes
o *this is specific to your play/ film
o Love, hate, murder, death, ambition, power, violence, time, fate and/or free will, the supernatural, age—youth and elder, race/ethnicity, justice, wealth, greed, revenge, religion, social classes, marriage, gender performances and/or gender roles, familial relationships, friendships, etc.
➢ Camera techniques
o camera angles, scene shots, camera movements and positions, etc.
➢ Editing
o fading, cutting, long takes, etc.
➢ Sound
o Film score, synchronous sounds, theme music/tune, sound effects, sound bridges, etc.
➢ Lighting
o Color schemes, cast shadows, “hard” light, “soft” light, top lighting, etc.
➢ The settings of the film
o Same as play or more modern?
➢ The language/ dialogue
o True to the play or more modernized?
➢ Clothing
o Period clothing or more modernized?
➢ Character relationships and/ or character representations
o their race, ages, behaviors, mannerisms/ expressions, costumes, etc. (**DO NOT do a direct, majority copy and paste of the Film analysis paper though!)
▪ *See our Canvas page’s “Film Terminology” sheet for more examples.*

Sample Solution

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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