"Romeo and Juliet" Cartoons
Every year when I start Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet students complain that they can't understand the language. I even have some ask me, "Why are we reading a play written hundreds of years ago when it doesn't relate to our lives today?" So I do try to always find new and funny interpretations of the play. Cartoonist, Roz Chast, five years ago with the arrival of AOL's IM, began satirizing Romeo and Juliet in cartoons that featured IM chat. (The picture is from the latest calendar.) Check out the chat from another one at the link: http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2004/11/romeo_and_julie_1.html . Just tonight as I was searching for the Chast cartoons, I came across another video card from Musearts that features guinea pigs. Check it out at this link: http://www.musearts.com/cartoons/pigs/romeo.html
So tell me your reactions to the satires. What are you thinking about the relevance of Romeo and Juliet to today's teens?
posted by CapEnglish3-4 @ 8:55 PM
12 Comments:
This whole cartoon thing aplies romio and juliet in a whole new light and it also helps people bridge the language gap. unfortunetly the silent guinea pigs enacted the death seen wrong saying juliet had the poison instead of romio.
Now that i think of it maybe the animator thought that they could make the end better by giving romio the look of the brave lover and so the happy dagger kills him. how steriotypical romio is brave because he is a boy. How is it jules dies in a wedding dress she was thought to be dead before the wedding w/ paris did this person eaven read the play or just make usumptions.
The text comic was more on target and more likely to happen but i have to chasadise the idea that rom still didnt get the plan b/c jules could have texted him to inform him of what to do. since this possibility was ruled out juliet is to blame for their deaths and romio to.
Shakespear sometimes stole ideas for his plays they say, so since his ideas are considered to be brilience no wonder people try to skeme his ideas too. the reason it still works for today and not just 400 years ago is because ultimately this is about human nature and no one has yet escaped their nature.
room 399 or ms henry can u post a picture and a poem next time that woud be intresting to work with?
i thought this was a cool one because ur wtching cartoons but u dont even kneed words to express love towards one another the sound and the way the characters react tell it all. romeo killed himself over juliet even though juliet was still alive still had the same affect for the actual play wich was pretty cool. u kinda get a sence of how one feels towards the other of how they react towards it.
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I think this cartoons are so cute but it is based sort of on Romeo and Juliet but the ginni pig boy was sad because the girl ginni pig didnt except him so he killed him self then i guess she notice how much he loved her so she dicited to kill her self too yes the girl ginni pig drank the poison isntead of the girl ginni pig which is juliet.
the guinea pig cartoon was really, well, interesting. it was sorta off though. romeo drank the poison and juliet stabbed herself. i agree with tora windrider when she says that she thinks that the animator is making assumptions. i mean, the only was you can really understand that cartoon is if you know what happened in Romeo and Juliet. i personally think that if the animator wanted to do something like that, he should have collected the right information first, unless he did it like that on purpose to make it more contraversial.
as for the texting cartoon-thing: that is totally nifty interpretation. i really like it because it really (sorta) relates to today's teens and how they react to each other. the text messaging language makes it so much easier to understand for us, and it doesn't take that long to read either! i love it!!! but, yeah, i thought it's the perfect thing to help us understand what's going on better. :}
This Cartoon does not have any relation like Romero and Juliet. I found out that the Cartoons were a little humor than before but one comment i would like to say that the Guinea Pigs in a illtrustrated version makes me laugh.
This blog is now closed for bonus points. Mrs. Henry
Oh that was horrible, to much chatspeak!
Yes though, I am glad there is something bridging the age gap.
P.S. Tora go out with me!!
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