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Love's twofold nature-its ability to inspire joy and bring pleasure, versus its capacity to derange the mind and oppress the spirit-is paraphrased early on by Romeo, as "a madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet." Violence Juliet, for instance, must navigate between two contrasting notions of romantic love: an arranged, convenient, loveless betrothal to Paris, or a passionate, forbidden, perilous affair with Romeo. The conflicts between love as a human passion and marriage as an interfamilial contract are also raised.
Luhrmann's adaptation preserves this fact by introducing Romeo in the midst of extreme heartbreak, agonizing over his own susceptibility to love, and the feelings of grief, melancholy, and madness that love engenders in him, while strolling in solitude along Verona Beach. William Shakespeare's original play Romeo and Juliet is not only one of the most famous love stories ever told, but one whose characters often pause to self-consciously examine and muse over the capricious nature and appalling power of love as a human emotion. Throughout the film, Romeo and Juliet's actions amount to a desperate attempt to defy their own cursed circumstances in life-namely, being the progeny of different warring families-by striving to escape Verona and thus the feud's "fatal loins." When at last they put a plan in motion to flee with the help of Father Laurence, fate intervenes once more, leading toward a tragic denouement. The first lines of Lurhmann's film-as well as his directorial decision to insert a flash-forward montage in the beginning scene-also make it immediately apparent to the viewer that their relationship will end in suicide, violence, and death. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are initially framed as "star-cross'd lovers," and "death-mark'd," in the play's opening verse.
Like virtually all works that can be said to occupy the tragic genre, Romeo and Juliet wrestles with philosophical notions of fate, fortune, and determinism.