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Read the following article:
-After reading the article how was the Iraqi version of
Romeo and Juliet different from the original? Give Examples from the article.
-Do you think the people of Iraq have a greater
understanding of what Romeo and Juliet went through then we do as Americans?
Explain why or why not.
Well as you may know most wars that start or happen is due to religious belief! So, these wars inquire literally NO point to it at all. most of these wars are started due to the fact one religion saying how there belief is better and makes more sense then someone else's religion and this starts a conflict because people cannot take the fact that they are fighting over the dumbest thing! A BELIEF like come on; its like a little kid has a dream and goes woah, mom power rangers are made by ToysRus and, the mom says NO power rangers are really made by Walmart. This starts an argument, this could be like a religious battle where the Sunni believe what they believe and the Shiite believe what they believe and both religions argue about whom religion is a better/ more believable religion. This for some reason bothers people, but really they shouldn't really care until they actually find all the facts or until something that the religion incurs actually happens because really they are not fighting over fact they are fighting over words in a book or words through story and over history stories get changed! Really if it were up to me they should just believe what they want and not care what anyone else believes seriously religion is suppose to help/ heal but realy religion causes conflict/ danger!
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you went into very great detail with your take on the blog . Also I liked how you put real life things in your answer.
DeleteThe Iraqi version was different from the original in many ways. First the setting is different. Another thing is that the two families have different names. Juliet’s family is rich and powerful and Romeo’s family is poor and weak. Romeo doesn't see Juliet for nine years since he had left. They also changed Mercutio story about queen Mab and changed it to a story about a bee finding a husband. They said that his story was too weird and made it to a folk tale. Paris was changed to a bomber and was still going to marry Juliet. Also Juliet was going to be older. Her age was 13 in the original story now she is 23.I think that people in Iraq don’t have a greater understanding because most of the story has changed. The original changed a lot so people won’t fully understand. But it had the general idea that the original had so it wasn't that much of a change. As for Americans we don't have the same story as they do so our understanding and there is different in many ways. Like how they the two families or how they changed the setting . So comparing our understanding of the story and their is very different.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you pointed out many of the different things between the two stories. After reading your blog I saw more things that were different that I didn't see before.
DeleteThe Iraqi version of Romeo and Juliet was different from the original version is that during the Iraqi version they are going through a full blown war against two types of people. In the original version its only two families that don't like each other. Another way they are different is that in the original they are both rich and in the Iraqi version one is poor and the other is rich. Also, the original version is placed in the early times and the Iraqi version is placed in current time. Another way they are different is that in the Iraqi version they hate each other over religion and in Romeo and Juliet it had nothing to do about religion. Another difference is that in the Iraqi version of Romeo and Juliet , Romeo did not see Juliet for nine years. In the original version he saw Juliet a lot sooner than that. He saw her in a few hours to several days. I think that the people Of Iraq have a better understanding of the story Romeo and Juliet than Americans do. The people of Iraq know how it is to fall in love with another person and can't be able to marry them. They are forbidden to marry people from another religion. They can't marry a certain person because their families tell them that they can't. If they really love each other and want to be together then they have to go against their family. In Romeo and Juliet they had the same problems like the Iraq people. Their families forbid them to marry and they tried to go against them. The American people have more freedom to marry who the want. They won't be killed if they marry someone else.
ReplyDeleteThe Iraqi version of Romeo and Juliet is different in many ways. First in the American version Romeo drinks poison to kill himself and Juliet stabs herself. In the Iraqi version they are killed by a suicide vest. In the American version Romeo doesn't see Juliet for a couple of days. In the Iraqi version Romeo doesn't see Juliet for 9 years. In the Iraqi version the Capulets aren't known as Capulets, they are known as Sunnis. The Montagues are known as Shiites. In the American version there is a little fairy that comes and whispers to you in your sleep. She tells you what you will love. In the Iraqi version they replaced the tale with a more conservative tale about a beetle trying to find a husband. The Iraqi version was based off of the lives of the people who wrote and directed the play. The American version is simply an idea that William Shakespeare came up with that turned into a worldwide sensation.
ReplyDeleteThe Iraqi version was different from the original in many ways. First the setting is different. Another thing is that the two families have different names. Juliet’s family is rich and powerful and Romeo’s family is poor and weak. Romeo doesn't see Juliet for nine years since he had left. They also changed Mercutio story about queen Mab and changed it to a story about a bee finding a husband. They said that his story was too weird and made it to a folk tale. Paris was changed to a bomber and was still going to marry Juliet. Also Juliet was going to be older. Her age was 13 in the original story now she is 23.I think that people in Iraq don’t have a greater understanding because most of the story has changed. The original changed a lot so people won’t fully understand. But it had the general idea that the original had so it wasn't that much of a change. As for Americans we don't have the same story as they do so our understanding and there is different in many ways. Like how they the two families or how they changed the setting . So comparing our understanding of the story and their is very different.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this and I like how you mentioned the differences of each.
DeleteI think that we Americans have a better understanding of Romeo and Juliet than people in Iraq do. The two articles are different in many ways. They are different because we have different life styles so different things happen in each article. The American version Juliet is very rich and the Iraq version one is poor and the other is very rich. Here in America when we fall in love with someone we are aloud to get married to them and spend our lives together. In Iraq the parents choose who they will get married too so they are used to not being about to really see each other and be with the person they want. In the Iraq version Romeo and Juliet don't see each other for many years but the American version they see each other very soon and do everything to sneak around to be with each other. It isn't true love if your forced to get married to someone you barley know.
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