Essays Tagged: "West Side Story"
Romeo and Juliet vs. West Side Story
Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, two timeless dramasthat will live forever. Although both of these stories havemany ... erstand thesedifferences, I have read and/or watched both Romeo andJuliet, and the similar tragedy, West Side Story.Above, I named a few of the many differences betweenWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo and ... f the many differences betweenWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Ernest Leaman'sscreenplay, West Side Story. One main difference is that inRomeo and Juliet the sililoquy is spoken while in Wes ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
West Side story and romeo and juliet are different in many ways
WEST SIDE STORY IS DIFFERENT FROM ROMEO AND JULIET IN MANY WAYSLaurence's West Side story is an appa ... D JULIET IN MANY WAYSLaurence's West Side story is an apparition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet differ in many ways. Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona in about ... ouple just one got killed. When the death of the persons happened is brought the two foes together. West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet is indeed different in many ways.Three incidents show Romeo and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
COMPARISON OF WEST SIDE STORY AND ROMEO AND JULIET
A Comparison of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. There is a lot in common between the two plays Romeo And Juliet and West Sid ... cter kills a relative of their lover. In Romeo And Juliet, Romeo kills Tybalta, Juliet's cousin. In West Side Story, Toni kills Bernardo, Maria's brother. There was a person in both play's that tried ... s that if there was another riot that the heads of each family will be killed. The Lieutenant, from West Side Story, had told the Puerto Rican's and the American's that if they get into another fight ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
Similarities of Two Famous Tales of Love. West Side Story and Romero and Juliet.
It discusses the similarities and differences of West Side Story and Romero and Juliet...there are a lot of similarities good detail, nice perception ... es of this century, many elements from anotherfamous tale of love were borrowed. In many instances, Westside Story mirrored Shakespeare'sRomeo And Juliet. Many similarities were noted from the charact ... ere noted from the characterization to the plot structure.However, they differed as well. In Westside Story, some characters shared personalities with those of Romeo And Juliet.The families of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Westside Story vs Romeo & Juliet
Since West Side Story is a modernized version of the famous story, Romeo and Juliet about two star-crossed ... f either or both, family and peers. The main roles in both stories were played by Tony and Maria in West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, they were the star-crossed lovers in both ... as Doc and Friar Laurence were to Tony and Romeo, always looking out for them.Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story were similar in the following five ways: first, both tragedies were about star-cross ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
In the novels Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, and Snow Falling on Cedars different factors in society contribute to the destruction of love
when that love fails? And when it does, what are the causes for it? In the novels Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, and Snow Falling on Cedars different factors in our society contribute greatly to t ... Falling on Cedars different factors in our society contribute greatly to the destruction of love.In West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, the hate that the characters feel for each other takes on a fo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Differences.
re is a large amount of plays that mention this problem.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents are two of them. Both plays share a lot of similarities, and in t ... ey have their differences. One of them is that Romeo and Juliet is written in the 15th century when West Side Story isbasicly the same story in as Romeo and Juliet in our days.In attempting to be toge ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
What was different about Stephen Sondheim musicals.
s. Each one he was involved with was unique and different to others at the time. Right through from West Side Story to Passione, Sondheim taken something weather it be art, life, horror or comedy and ... ething weather it be art, life, horror or comedy and put it to music.His first Broadway musical was West Side Story. He worked as a lyricist and it was his first major musical. It became so successful ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Romeo and Juliet vs. The West Side Story.
Though both Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story tell the timeless tale of two forbidden lovers struggling to save their relationship ... t similarities and also many differences between this classic text and the 1960' movie. Even though West Side Story is set in more modern times, all the characters obviously parallel characters from S ... ovel, the differences between the two tales occur in the plot and setting.Many of the characters in West Side Story are similar to those in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is Tony, of the Jets. Juliet is Mari ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn vs. West Side Story
have a lot of significance, in another place it just wouldn't be as meaningful. The literary works West Side Story , and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn fit the quote.West Side Story relates to this quote b ... y important event in it that would probably only be important to that city in which it occurred. In West Side Story, a pair of star-crossed lovers have difficulty with their relationship because they ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Nike- The Biggest Training Shoe Company
a youth fashion item, worn by film stars such as James Dean and featured in popular movies like the West Side Story. While the boom in sales of gym shoes or sneakers was strongest in USA, as with so m ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Abstract
f their members whether they are the Bloods and Crips of Los Angeles or the Sharks and the Jets of "West Side Story." Gangs may not possess a set of formal written rules, but all of them have their ow ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays
An analytical essay critiquing Latino images in West Side Story
os have been misrepresented in Hollywood feature films intended primarily for non-Latino audiences. West Side Story is a prime example of a film that contains negative imagery and stereotypes that per ... answer is, it is pivotal to understand the historical events that were taking place during the time West Side Story was created. The Zoot Suit Riots, originating in East L.A. 1943, were one of the man ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Comparison of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare to West Side Story by Arthur Laurents.
but their relationship only ends in the death of both of them, plus others close to them. The book West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents was based on the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, but set in ... night, "O blessed, blessed night!...Too flattering-sweet to be substantial." In act I, scene V, of West Side Story, Maria says of Tony, "Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever." Then, Tony ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
Relationship between Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and its appropriation West Side Story and how the respective contexts demonstrate values that have been maintained or changed
comparing the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare (1596), with its' film appropriation "West Side Story" directed by Robert Wise (1961), it is evident that the portrayed values have been m ... atic value of the power of love and its' amoral nature is reflected in both "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story", although the settings change from 16th century Verona to 20th century New York res ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Romeo and Juliet, west side story, compare and contrast
"Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story" are two similarly different stories. They are both great stories written by great w ... ct 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 ... peare and Arthur Laurents had done their best when they wrote these stories."Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story" have similar, if not exactly the same theme. Both stories display the power of love ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
THE WEST SIDE STORY
was only me, but Tony seemed to be the happiest person there, even before he met Maria. The West Side Story did not demonstrate a good society, either. The people outside the gang did not help ... d the wonderful outfits, and I think that they really do make the play reachable.I was wondering if West Side Story has ever been done in a setting other than proscenium. It would be quite an adventur ...
Subjects: Art Essays
This essay is comparing shakespears "Romeo and Juliet" with the movie, "West Side Story".
"West Side Story" is a modernized musical based on Shakespeare's play, "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juli ... eo killed him first. When the families find out what happened it ends the argument between them.In "West Side Story", There are two gangs of different races, the Jets and Sharks. The Jets are American ... r. Chino was supposed to marry Maria and Paris was supposed to marry Juliet. Chino killed Tony. In "West Side Story" Chino killed Tony while in "Romeo and Juliet", Romeo killed Paris First.
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
"West Side Story" Critique.
but it reaches a fever pitch when Maria falls for Tony, the founder of the Jets, at a local dance. West Side Story is the classic tragedy of Romeo & Juliet set in a modern setting. The setting is ... e view capturing the city with many of its recognizable landmarks as it moves steadily to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and then speedily zooms down and plunges into a concrete playground where an ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story"
"West Side Story" and "Romeo and Juliet" are basically a movie and a book about unlucky lovers from t ... " are basically a movie and a book about unlucky lovers from two different families. In the case of West Side Story, Maria is a young woman from a Puerto Rican family that has a brother in a gang call ... s from another royal family, the Montagues. These two stories have a basic thing in common. In the "West Side Story" the Sharks and the Jets hate each other. In "Romeo and Juliet" the Capulets and the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet