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    We see the members of Glee and indeed Rachael and John Book begin to challenge their stereotypes‚ but Arthur Laurents’ musical West Side Story demonstrates the true importance of interactions with others. A modern American adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ West Side Story depicts the 1940s American gangland warfares between two gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. Similar to Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets‚ each member of the gang is brought

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    the Royals was no more than ’business’ if you will. The author doesn’t emphasize on the unbreakable bond that the gang members felt toward each other.   After evaluating some main points in West Side Story I feel that the author elaborated a lot on the inseparable bond that the Jets had with each other. The story was very light weight‚ and there was a very up beat feel to it. The boys were very cocky‚ but it seemed that together they could take over the world. The Jets felt that if one of them went

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    West Side StoryAnalysis Do you believe that everyone has a reason to hate someone or something just because of the way they look? May racism be the starting point to hatred? In “West Side Story”‚ author Irving Shulman gives us nothing but clues to these questions. The Sharks and the Jets are in a “ turf ” war. But two people‚ one from each side fall deeply in love. Irving Shulman writes how interracial relationships cause hate to increase in an instant and how racism leads up to hate. The

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    director and screenwriter‚ who was credited for the musicals from there books "West Side Story" (1957) and "Gypsy" (1959). In 1957‚ Laurents wrote the libretto for "West Side Story." Which was originally conceived by Jerome Robbins as a twist on “Romeo and Juliet”. Idea for this began with Robbins. In 1949‚ he asked Laurents to draft a script for a story of conflict between Jews and Italian Catholics on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Took five years‚ and a rethinking of Manhattan demographics and geography

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    contextualisation of West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ lyrics by Stephan Sondheim and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.’ West Side Story is a 1961 film set in the mid-1950s in the upper west side of New York. West Side Story is based and inspired by Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. In West Side Story the protagonist is the former leader of the Jets‚ Tony‚ who falls in love with Maria‚ who is one

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    Jared Malpass 1-29-2012 PD. 5 West Side Story Theme Essay In the movie West Side Story‚ there are many themes that were created. But the two that are the most important to me are‚ the importance of putting your differences aside‚ and that poor choices create bad outcomes. I think one of the themes that most reassembles West Side Story is‚ the importance of putting your differences aside is because both the Sharks and the Jets had there differences‚ but if they were to just put them

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    someone is called Lust. In the book "West Side Story" by Stephen Sondheim‚ two people from different gangs think they love each other‚ but from my point of view‚ they are just attracted to each other. They don’t show true love because they keep on thinking about their looks and they showed desire towards each other. First of all‚ true love is when someone shouldn’t judge someone on their looks or think about their looks. Some characters in the book like Tony and Maria weren’t truly in love with each

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    West Side Story No 10: Tonight (Ensemble) Maria‚ Tony‚ Anita‚ Riff‚ Bernardo‚ Jets and Sharks In this number‚ all the participants talk about the eventful evening they feel is ahead‚ each with their own thoughts on what will happen. There are three trains of thought: 1 Riff and Bernardo - thinking (in terms of their own gangs) of the fight arranged for later that evening 2 Anita - thinking about her ’nocturnal activities’ with Bernardo after the fight 3 Tony and Maria - more romantic love‚

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    Ernest Lehman’s West Side Story are similar in many ways; however‚ in those comparisons there are some minor differences. Aside from the similarities between Romeo and Tony or Juliet and Maria‚ there are many other likenesses such as the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet and the fire escape scene in West Side Story. In Romeo and Juliet the scene starts off with Romeo listening to Juliet give her "What’s in a name?" speech‚ and similarly‚ in West Side Story the scene starts off with Maria overhearing

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    differences of West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet‚ the modern director captures Shakespeare’s original themes and ideas in West Side Story. Because West Side Story is a movie musical‚ it will be a lot of narrative conveyed through the song. While in the Romeo and Juliet we will be more find the characters says to himself or herself using poetic words of Shakespeare. That is the general differences that clearly visible on both movies. But if we examine in more detail‚ the movie West Side Story and Romeo

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