The Sharks and the Jets who play as the modern day Capulets and Montagues, keep the two young lovers from being together and cause them to hide a forbidden love. As tension builds
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Bernardo’s gang and sends them on a revenge mission. Tony is falsely informed of Maria’s death and walks the streets begging for the Jets to find him and kill him. Eventually he gets his wish and is gunned down in the street and dies in the arms of his love. Just as Romeo kills himself when he believes Juliet is dead. When she awakes to find him dead next to her she kills herself as well. Shakespeare also inspired many famous writers and their books alike. He inspired …show more content…
This cancer eventually ends Augustus’ life thus ending the novel in tragedy just as pre-written in Romeo and Juliet.
There are hit shows that have characters that are named from his work. In the Netflix original series The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt one of the main character changes his name to
Titus Andronicus once he moves to New York city to start his new life as an actor. His name originates from Shakespeare’s play Titus Andronicus.
Shakespeare’s works have been translated into 80 different languages and have been shipped all over the world. Many cities and buildings have been named in honor of Shakespeare;
Shakespeare, New Mexico, Shakespeare, Ontario, Shakespeare Rock in Lake Tahoe. They have also named all the moons of Uranus after characters in his plays. These namings show us that
Shakespeare’s name extends further from the minds of writers and authors, but also to the minds of People who name cities and Astrologists. He is a household name but further than that he is a universal name.
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William Shakespeare continues to inspire readers and writers alike with his ability to