Ken Loach’s "Ae Fond Kiss". A Multicultural Romeo and Juliet Story?

Download or read book Ken Loach’s "Ae Fond Kiss". A Multicultural Romeo and Juliet Story? written by Clare Stalder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The life of the "Ae Fond Kiss" protagonists, Casim and Roisin, is made difficult when they start a romantic relationship that brings Casim’s Pakistani background into conflict with Roisin’s Irish Catholic background They are condemned to experience how long standing prejudice and narrow-mindedness get in the way of what looks like a promising, almost harmonious love story –just like it tragically happens to Romeo and Juliet.