A Comparison Of Beyond The Love Story And West Side Story

He jumps right in, and tells Balthasar to get the horses ready at once. Romeo and Juliet’s lack of maturity also causes them to love one another without a limit. They are too immature to realize that the feeling of love should not conquer common sense and reasoning. They love each other too such an extreme, that they are inseparable; and once separated, they are willing to go up to any extent to be loyal to each other and their love. This idea is strongly emphasized when Juliet is willing to kill herself rather than marry Paris which proves that she is loyal to her love. Romeo, in return, kills himself after he sees Juliet dead, which shows that he too is loyal to his love. Romeo and Juliet are both young and immature when they fall in love with each other, and their immaturity results in them not understanding that love has its limits. The young lovers love to an extreme neglecting love’s limits, which leads to them not taking mature decisions and steps, but rather rashly and abruptly on impulse to honor their love for each other. Romeo and Juliet feel such a burden to honor their love for each other that they end up committing suicide.

Acceptance is the first building-block when entering a group. If accredited by those in your association, this leads to belonging with everyone, and then finally being treated like close acquaintances no matter what the situation is. This behavior is displayed throughout in the stories, The Outsiders and West Side Story. In the fictional novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the main character, Ponyboy, belongs to a diverse gang of delinquents, each of them with different qualities and aspects, but as divergent as they all are, they always welcome one another like a family. In the fictional play West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, there is a character named Tony who has gradually grown distant from his old gang, the Jets, although his fellow

Romeo decides to go to the Juliet house. Paris see Romeo’s coming, Paris challenge Romeo to a duel but Romeo kills him quickly. Romeo come close to Juliet to give a last kiss and dies then Romeo drink a poison. Friar Lawrence explain the whole story into lord Capulet anf lord Montague after that the two families will now friends.

Plot refers to the sequence of events in a story. The story and movie are similar in their conflict, climax, and resolutions. In both the narrative and movie, the conflict is that George is unhappy with his life and wants to kill himself. As said in The Greatest Gift, “The water looked paralyzingly cold. George wondered how long a man could stay alive in it. The glassy blackness had a strange, hypnotic effect on him. He leaned still farther over the railing... ‘I wouldn’t do that if I were you,’ a quiet voice beside him said.” The climax is when George, after seeing what life would be like if he was never born, realized how much people actually needed him, and

They get married but since Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo has no choice but to kill him. Romeo gets banished from Verona and so he can no longer be with Juliet. Due to a few mishaps with the Friar, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and goes to her tomb to drink poison and die with her but Juliet awakes just after Romeo drank the poison. When Juliet realizes what happened, she kills herself. Many characters contributed to the fall and death of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.

Juliet, the Nurse, and Juliet’s mother discuss about how Juliet’s mother was married at the age Juliet was, and Juliet thinks there is no rush and is not interested in any man. Then, at the party her mother tells her to meet a man Paris even though she did not like him. At the party Juliet did not want to get married, but then she meets a mystery man (Romeo) and instantly falls in love. In the end Juliet and Romeo get married within a day of her saying she did not want marriage, but now she is married to Romeo. In act 2 scene 2 Juliet

Romeo and Juliet’s love story is just the same as West Side Story’s love story. For example in both love stories the main characters can never be together. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo can’t be with Juliet because of their family rivalry. In West Side Story, Tony and Maria can’t be together also because of their gangs rivalry.

As soon he lays his eyes on her, Romeo instantly falls in love with Juliet. Later that night, Romeo shows up at Juliet’s balcony and they decide that they must get married in secret, for a Capulet and Montague would never be allowed to love one another. Informing only Friar Laurence and the nurse, Romeo and Juliet plan to secretly get married in the Friar’s cell one afternoon. After the wedding, Romeo gets in a fight with a Capulet named Tybalt, who is Juliet’s cousin. The Capulet’s take Tybalt’s side and the Montagues take Romeo’s.

When discussing classic love stories, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is often included in the conversation. The tragic story of the “star-crossed lovers” (Shakespeare 6) is taught in high schools and studied in colleges. Its poetry has graced many stages and silver screens. Romeo and Juliet is also often reimagined for a modern audience. One such interpretation is West Side Story. Written by Stephen Sondheim, it made its Hollywood debut in 1961 under directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. Instead of feuding families in Verona, West Side Story touts rival gangs in New York City. Although the plots of West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet themselves seem interchangeable, key differences exist that make West Side Story a

The Zeffirelli filmic adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is like the original text in almost every way. The settings follow the script exactly; the lines word for word. In complete contrast, the movie musical West Side Story presents the story in unique, entertaining way. While the correspondence between characters

In 1995 William Shakespeare wrote a play called Romeo and Juliet. Almost four hundred years later, Aurthur Laurents wrote a novel called West Side Story. Interestingly they share many similarities. Specifically, they are similar in character profile, setting , and prejudice.

The Music West Side Story is a story narrated by Leonard Bernstein. The story is found in the book written by Arthur Laurents. The lyrics in the music are done by Stephen Sondheim while Jerome Robbins did the choreography and conception. The inspiration of the song was done by Shakespeare in the play Romeo and Juliet. The setting of the story was Upper West Side in New York City. The period in which the story was set was in the mid 1950s. The music explored rivalry between 2 teenager’s street gangs belonging to different ethnic background known as Sharks and Jets. The characters in the story include the Jets ( Riff, Tony, Action, Baby John, Big Deal, Gee tar, Diesel and Tiger), their girls ( Velma, Minnie, Graziella, Clarice, and Paulina), the Sharks (Maria, Chino, Anita, Bernardo, Pepe, Luis, Nibbles, Toro, Moose and Indio). The Shark’s girls were Rosalia, Teresita, Estella, and Marguerita) and the adults were Doc, Gladhand, Krupke and Schrank (Simeone 12).

In West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, the plot was alike where two star-crossed lovers either took their life or were killed. These two stories heed the message that the individual’s actions led to big consequences due to a feud. From the difference in the time, the conflicts, and the symbolization of the characters, the West Side Story played a great representation of Romeo and Juliet. Despite having some salient similarities, the difference between Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are pronounced throughout the film.

Relationship: Within a few days, Juliet transitions to adulthood fast. She had to deal with issues of life like, passion, death, romance, and loss. In the play Juliet is courted by a potential husband named Count Paris, but strongly falls in love with another guy named romeo who is the son of her family’s enemy. She marries Romeo secretly, and experiences the death of her cousin Tybalt. Romeo is forced to leave the city for killing Tybalt, and Juliet is threatened by her father for refusing to marry the man they have chosen for her. Juliet was let down by the nurse who raised her from infancy. Juliet drugged herself, made it seem like seem was dead. When Romeo found out she was “dead”, He killed himself to meet her in the afterlife.

Romeo decides to go to the Juliet house. Paris see Romeo’s coming, Paris challenge Romeo to a duel but Romeo kills him quickly. Romeo come close to Juliet to give a last kiss and dies then Romeo drink a poison. Friar Lawrence explain the whole story into lord Capulet anf lord Montague after that the two families will now friends.