Some Impressions of Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is one of the most romantic and widely known Shakespearean plays around the world for quite a long time. There are more than a dozen editions of film Romeo and Juliet. Among those, the one produced in 1968 is regarded the best expresses Shakespeare both in form and idea. It is directed by Franco Zeffirelli and taken as an eternal song of love theme in the world. And two major lines threading through the whole play are always focused: a tragedy of fortune and a tragedy of fate. The death of Romeo and Juliet bring reconciliation to the two opposing families and the tragedy of them indeed moved the audience a great deal: “For never was a story of more woe/ Then this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (Shakespeare 1093) Romeo and Juliet is one of the best known and best loved of Shakespeare’ plays. It conforms rather to the simplest, most basic definition of the term “tragedy". Called it a "tragedy", it's according to the love of Romeo and Juliet and the death of them. But may be we want to know more about their love than the tragedy.Romeo and Juliet leaves me a deep impression, whether the play or the movie of 1968. Juliet is played by Olivia Hussey vividly who looks dignified and classical with little pure at her age of 17. Romeo is played by handsome Leonard Whiting. In this version, whether the costumes, the action people had or the languages they speak are perfectly matched to the age and the story’s original background. We can see people wear tights and fight violently with the real sword; those scenes are exactly what the old age people like. We will soon be able to enter the story and the whole scene set up in our minds automatically.With the sound of “what is a youth”, Romeo and Juliet meet each other by chance at Capulet’s masque ball. The poignant love story starts! The encounter at the ball, the profession of love on balcony, the pledge at the church and the farewell in the grave, these most memorable scenes leave me deep impressions and I cannot help admiring the delicate contriving of the play----- “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” We usually wonder that w hy this tragedy is the most woeful. Maybe because it proves us that humanity is nothing but fortune’s fool, controlled by the almighty stars, acting on the mere stage of the world. Because it tells a story of true love, which reminds us of our own desire for true love, especially in youth!The two chief families in Verona has been so deadly enmity. Romeo, who is the son of the old lord Montagu e, wants to see the beauty of Capulet’s’ daughter, Juliet. So he takes p art in the party in Capulet’s. They are in love at the first time. Soon, they are engaged with the help of Friar in secret. The same day, Romeo’s friends meet and fight till one of them dies. Romeo kills Tybalt in order to Mercution. The prince decides to sentence Romeo to banish from Verona. Later, Capulet forces Juliet to marry to the young count Paris. Juliet only asks for the help from Friar. Friar asks Juliet to agree to marry Paris. Before the night of marriage, drinking off the poison, the effort of which would last forty hours，she should appear cold and lifeless. Romeo will come to fetch her when she awakes, both of them can leave off Verona.Unfortunately, Romeo doesn’t receive the letter. On hearing of the death of Juliet, he sets out for Verona with a poison to have a sight of Juliet. After Romeo kisses Juliet, drinking off the poison and dies. When Juliet revives, she finds died Romeo. Then she kills herself. After Friars tells the truth, the two old families agree to bury their enmity. They give hands each other. The play Shakespeare writes as a tragedy play, but it contains comedy. Although the result of Romeo and Juliet is tragedy, the long gap disappears in the feudal noble at last. In the play descriptions of love are moving and idyllic Romeo is caught in an excess of emotion at first time. He is in love with the idea of love. He is moody, unbalanced. After he sees Juliet, all the things have changed in his high-spirited happiness, gallant and love. He constant to his love at the first sight of Juliet: Beauty too rich for use. For earth too dear! /Did my heart love till now? For swear it, sights! / For I never saw true beauty till this night…We know Romeo has changed. He starts to understand what the real love is. He is even ready to reveal insolence and to be the mediator between Mercutio and Tybalt with the death of Tybalt, he is exiled from Verona. He says," Hence from Verona is conch more than death. There is no world without Verona walls. There is no heaven without where Juliet lives." when he knows the news of Juliet’s death, suicide is the only choice. Juliet's death means no signification life. So we can see how deeply Romeo loves Juliet. Juliet is more important than him. Juliet also aged quickly within five days. At the beginning of the play: Juliet is an obedient young girl of fourteen. Nurse calls her "lamb". But when she is in love with Romeo, she starts to consider something about herself -determining and think of the significant of life.Only in youth can they fall in love without utilitarian, but with devoting all they have to love. “Youth…is a matter of will…vigor of the emotions.”(Youth 82 英语六级晨读美文) Every part of the movie if full of such sweet sorrow: the true love in youth with doomed tragedy. The more happy the twos are, the more sorrow they will have. In the prologue of Romeo and Juliet, the chorus made the notion of fate manifest: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/ A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life (1058)”. Like the oracle from the Delphi in ancient Greece, the love between Romeo and Juliet was doomed to death at the every beginning. After reading the play and watching the movie, I think we should believe the true love, at least, we may become strong believers that true love is existence.Sometimes we may ask that what the most glorious thing is in the world. Shakespeare answered, “Love and art.”(Sonnet 116) the reason that people always describe love is beautiful may be because of its difficulty to get. Dying for love, like a religious martyr, makes the moment love eternal to guard. Love in youth is more valuable. “Love is a past time a nd never will pall/ Sweeter than honey and bitter as gall”(from song “what is youth”). The rose will bloom, but it will fade. So does the youth！So does the fairest maid! The two families, the Capulet and the Montague, who are in war, gave birth to a pair of unfortunate lovers; a general in the opening poem, the film has been passed down for hundreds of years of well-known tragedy of lovebegan.“What is a youth?” is always echoed around my ear. “What is a youth? Impetuous fire/what is a maid? Ice and desire…” Shakespeare illustrates his understanding of youth, but what is yours? One day if you could answer this question, yours may have gone. In the Middle Ages, marriages were still arranged. Romeo and Juliet, however, they choose freedom. They allow the passion aroused in adolescence to dominate everything. When the youth pursue love and seek the ideal of happiness, they can restrain nothing and resist nothing. Romeo and Juliet are the typical of this kind of youth. For the freedom of love, they pursued at all costs. Except the family influence, that they have no plan for dealing with the complicated problem is regarded another important reason for the tragedy. Before the love affair came into being, they all let everything followed with their feelings without any thinking over it. But life is a long process, not a little period. How to continue the love after they get married and keep peace between the two families? For the strong power of love, and also for their young age and unacquaintance, crude and rash, they all did not realize the importance of these objectives. The love supported without any firm backing thing is hidden danger for the later story.The whole story occurred in four days, and every scene was in a hurry--- speed into marriage, speed into banishment, speed back to Juliet, and speed in another quarter to get Juliet married to Parris, speed to kill whoever steps in the way and speed to commit suicide when life suddenly seems not worth living. For the time they fell in love at the first sight to the time they got married, the love between them leapt up to the top of the happiness, ad then, fell down to the abyss of the suffering, at last, they died for love. All of these details embodied one point: the youth is in full bloom. They are all full of young people’s strong lust. Romeo had described love like this: “love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs/ being purged a fire sparking in loveers eyes/ being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers tears/ what else? /Madness most discreet/ a choking gall and a preserving sweet.”(Romeo and Juliet) That implied Romeo had not known what true love is, and he hadn’t tasted the real flavor of love. Youth is wonderful and passion, which happened in young people, is more splendid. It can make your life incredible and forgettable.Never is a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. I appreciate the movie of 1968 version for the beauty and respect the original work.。