Comparison of West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet West Side Story’s characters have a number of similarities with the characters from Romeo and Juliet. The characters are: Romeo and Tony‚ Juliet and Maria‚ Mercutio and Riff‚ and Tybalt and Bernardo. These characters are alike‚ yet different. They have similar scenes‚ similar loves‚ and similar deaths. Throughout the movie of West Side Story‚ even more characters similar to the characters of Romeo and Juliet. In this I will also compare the
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away and get married but they didn’t. There are many violence of the movie Romeo & Juliet and west side story. The violence in Romeo and Juliet was when Mercutio fought with Tybalt and Romeo tried to stop the fight but Tybalt killed Mercutio and Romeo got mad killed Tybalt. The west side story had violence was when Bernardo
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feuding families‚ West Side Story offers prejudice between races‚ as illustrated between street gangs‚ the Jets and Sharks. Some of the characters in West Side Story are carbon copies of those in Romeo and Juliet: Maria (Juliet)‚ Tony (Romeo)‚ Bernardo (Tybalt)‚ Lt. Schrank (Prince)‚ and Anita (Nurse). Others appear to be a composite of characters‚ namely Riff‚ a combination of Benvolio and Mercutio‚ and Doc‚ who appears to fulfill the role of Friar Laurence (possessed somewhat of a peacekeeping nature:
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Juliet’s balcony and always at the night. Also Tony and Maria‚ they meet in Maria’s room or Maria’s balcony at night. The time also similar when the main men character killed the main women character’s relative. Romeo killed Tybalt at the night‚ and Tony killed the Bernardo at the night too. Also when the main men character died‚ they died at night but in different place. Romeo died in the church with Juliet and Tony died in the playground near Doc’s store. The clear difference is the setting of
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(Trivia Quiz at bottom of page) Character Analogies | Maria = Juliet |A-Rab = Sampson |Sharks = Capulets | |Tony = Romeo |Riff = Tybalt |Jets = Montagues | |Anita = Nurse |Bernardo = Mercutio |Det. Shrank = Escalus | |Baby John = Gregor |Doc = Friar Laurence |Chino = Paris | The characters do have some
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in public - they must do it secretly. Also‚ Bernardo and Riff are strong focuses of hate. They cannot see past their blind hatred for each other. Because of this‚ both of them‚ as well as Tony‚ are killed in the "rumble." Anita’s hatred for the Jets is fueled by their treatment of her at Doc’s candy store. This influences her to tell them that Maria is dead‚ thus affecting the ending of the play. Chino is another source of hatred. When Tony kills Bernardo‚ Chino is driven by the need for revenge and
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Juliet; the lovers were forced to take their own lives or to be killed because of the fate and the actions of others. In Romeo and Juliet‚ one of the characters who is partly responsible deaths of both Romeo and Juliet is Tybalt. Tybalt enrages Romeo and causes him to kill Tybalt‚ this brings out Romeo’s exile from Verona. If this did not happen‚ Romeo would have heard Friar Lawrence’s plan to keep Juliet from getting married. If he had known of the plan‚ he would not have gone to the vault
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Romeo and Juliet Expository Essay William Shakespeare is known as the literary genius behind the classic play Romeo and Juliet. However‚ his play is not as original as many people may think it is. Thirty years prior to Romeo and Juliet‚ the play Romeus and Juliet was written; Pyramus and Thisbe was written even earlier. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare reveals to his audience that love is a powerful force that cannot be denied‚ which is also shown in the films West Side Story‚ Gnomeo and Juliet
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Or‚ when he kills his wife’s cousin in a duel. And finally‚ when he committed suicide upon erroneously believing Juliet is dead. The same way‚ Tony of the West Side Story is capable of extreme emotions. This is when he killed his lover’s brother Bernardo in a heated argument. He also challenged Chino to kill him when he thought Chino killed Maria which as we know led to his untimely demise towards the end of the story. Both male characters seem defined by their extreme emotions and capacity for
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At the beginning of the story some of the servants got in a fight that ended up having even Lord Montague and Lord Capulet fighting. There were also sword fights between Tybalt and Romeo because Tybalt didn’t wanted his family honor to go to shame. This is relevant to today because in the story there were disagreements between the Montagues and the Capulets. Today there are variations between people‚ which causes fights. This could be
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