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West Side Story Quotes
Josephine Tschirhart
Mrs. Hughes
Advanced ELA
26 May 2016 Love and Fear A pair of star-crossed lovers. Two gangs who kill. Three young boys who die. In the musical West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, there are two gangs- the Jets and the Sharks, who are constantly brawling over a block in New York City. The leader of the Jets is Riff, and the leader of the Sharks is Bernardo. Bernardo’s sister, Maria, falls in love with Tony, who is from the opposite gang. The gangs eventually have a rumble over turf, and the rumble results in the death of Riff and Bernardo. Maria and Tony decide to run away and make a new life. Right before they can get away, Chino, a man who was promised to Maria, intercepts their getaway and kills Tony. Throughout …show more content…
As they are fearful that she would hurt him. Another strong piece of evidence is as follows. Right before this quote Anita tells Doc that Maria was killed. Afterwards, Doc reported it to Tony. Tony tremendously fears not being with Maria. He desperately shouts to Chino who wants to kill Tony. “Chino? Chino? Come and get me, too, Chino” (2,5,20). This definitely states that Tony’s fear of losing Maria causes him to take drastic measures.
Fear causes regret, in West Side Story Maria tells Tony to go stop the fight. This causes the stories’ chaotic rumble. “Listen and hear me. You must go and stop it” (1,7,2). This quote from Maria gives Tony a sense of urgency to go and stop the fist fight before Bernardo gets hurt. While Tony was trying to stop it, it just caused more chaos. This clearly shows how Maria fears for Bernardo. Without this fear there would not have been a knife fight that they will forever regret and causes two loved people to die.
The main tragic events in this musical West Side Story by Arthur Laurents fueled by fear. Fear causes the gangs to make drastic decisions, get involved in a epic fight, and lose the lives of their own gang members.The quote “money is the root of all evil” should be “fear is the root of all evil”.
Laurents, Arthur, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim. West Side Story: A Musical. London: Chappell,
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