Romeo and Juliet/ West Side Story Compare and Contrast I recently finished reading Romeo and Juliet‚ as well as West Side Story. As I read I noticed various things which were similar between the two stories. That also got me thinking about the things that are different as well. One of the obvious similarities is what happened to Bernardo and Tybalt as the stories progressed. They both tried to stop the two lovers from continuing their romance. If they left the two lovers alone they would have lived
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Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparative Essay Two feuding families in the old city of Verona‚ and two rival gangs in New York’s West Side; what could these two scenarios possibly have in common? They both consist of a pair of star-crossed lovers and the story of their short lived love‚ which eventually ends in deaths. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Arthur Laurents’ West Side Story are similar in many ways. They both have the similar theme of forbidden love and love that is
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03/12/2014 On March 31st 1732 in a small village by the name of Roharau‚ in Austria next to the border of Hungary‚ a young boy by the name of Franz Joseph Haydn‚ who would turn out to be a famous composer‚ was born to the parents of Mathias Haydn and Anna Maria Koller. Franz was one of the parents three boy children. Mathias Haydn was a professional master wheelwright who loved music. He was a harp player. He worked as a wheelwright in the Austrian village of Rohrau‚ and was also a maktrichter
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reveals himself and they start talking about there love. Juliet proposes they get married. In 1968 a film of Romeo and Juliet was made and in 1961 a similar film of Romeo and Juliet was made‚ West Side Story. The 1968 film is better than the 1961 film. The 1968 version is closer to the original than West Side Story. Both are about two lovers that can’t be together. It’s at night and the male has to climb an obstacle and the lovers end up
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The play West Side Story‚ by Arthur Laurents‚ is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences‚ both works‚ in essence‚ have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs‚ although‚ because of the "star-cross’d lovers" motif in Romeo and Juliet‚ the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Romeo and Juliet.
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West Side Story" are two similarly different stories. They are both great stories written by great writers. "Romeo and Juliet" is a sad love story that’s a classic known by many. It is the perfect model to be used by other writers. It is one of the best works of William Shakespeare. Although "West Side Story" is not as famous as "Romeo and Juliet"‚ it was a impressive work of it’s time‚ and it has left his mark on the times afterwards. It is also a love story which also ends with somebody’s death
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both have a lot in common as well as major differences that set them apart. Although West Side Story is a direct rendition of Shakespeare’s original play‚ many of the themes and symbols are altered to fit the modern perspective. The characters have a direct correlation to each other‚ yet racial issues give them a new light. Many of the events also reflect each other‚ yet small differences give them uniqueness. West Side Story differs from Romeo and Juliet
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1961 film West Side Story‚ Frances Negron-Muntaner expresses her dislike of the film‚ arguing that the film portrays Puerto Rican men as criminals and gang members‚ and portraying the women of Puerto Rico as “sassy and virginal”. Though the film was not the first or last film to marginalize Puerto Ricans‚ Muntaner states that “There is no single American cultural product that haunts Puerto Rican identity discourses in the United States more intensely than the 1961 film‚ West Side Story. While
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Romeo & Juliet and the west side story have a lot of comparisons and differences. Romeo & Juliet and the west side story portray the theme of romance‚ violence and sadness in much different and similar ways. The movie Romeo & Juliet has romance it was when Romeo and Juliet fell in love in the first sight and got married. For the west side story tony and Maria in the first sight but didn’t get married they were about to run away and get married but they didn’t. There are many violence of the movie
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SOMETHING’S COMING Something’s Coming appears towards the start of the musical and introduces Tony‚ the male lead. Through the song‚ the audience finds out that Tony is waiting for something to happen and feels like it will be soon. You will notice the use of muted brass in the accompaniment‚ a subtle jazz reference that places the piece in the mid 1900s. The verse comprises of push rhythms on “could be” and “who knows” that fall into long sustained notes over a repeated syncopated bass line
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