Romeo & Juliet and the west side story have a lot of comparisons and differences. Romeo & Juliet and the west side story portray the theme of romance‚ violence and sadness in much different and similar ways. The movie Romeo & Juliet has romance it was when Romeo and Juliet fell in love in the first sight and got married. For the west side story tony and Maria in the first sight but didn’t get married they were about to run away and get married but they didn’t. There are many violence of the movie
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SOMETHING’S COMING Something’s Coming appears towards the start of the musical and introduces Tony‚ the male lead. Through the song‚ the audience finds out that Tony is waiting for something to happen and feels like it will be soon. You will notice the use of muted brass in the accompaniment‚ a subtle jazz reference that places the piece in the mid 1900s. The verse comprises of push rhythms on “could be” and “who knows” that fall into long sustained notes over a repeated syncopated bass line
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West Side Story No 10: Tonight (Ensemble) Maria‚ Tony‚ Anita‚ Riff‚ Bernardo‚ Jets and Sharks In this number‚ all the participants talk about the eventful evening they feel is ahead‚ each with their own thoughts on what will happen. There are three trains of thought: 1 Riff and Bernardo - thinking (in terms of their own gangs) of the fight arranged for later that evening 2 Anita - thinking about her ’nocturnal activities’ with Bernardo after the fight 3 Tony and Maria - more romantic love‚
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and Contrasted to “Westside Story” “Westside Story” and “Romeo and Juliet” are both inspiring stories about two star-crossed lovers whose love is forbidden because of hatred between their groups‚ which leads to inevitable death. These two stories have an unquestionably wide range of similarities and differences as far as scenes and the characters that make the scenes differ or resemble to each other. The first and last scenes of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Westside Story” both resemble much similarities
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The West Side Community Collaborative The west side of Buffalo‚ NY has had a bad reputation for a long time now‚ but it hasn’t always been that way. Many years ago the area known as the west side was a popular and extravagant place to live. Through years of economic hardships however‚ the west side took a wrong turn somewhere. It is now viewed by many people as “a lost cause.” The crime rates have skyrocketed and the standard of living has plummeted. Gangs are a huge issue in the west side of Buffalo
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In the 19th century‚ after a long period of isolationism‚ China and then Japan came under pressure from the West to open to foreign trade and relations. The Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States had created a wide gap between them and the West‚ leaving the two Asian nations behind technologically and military. In that period‚ neither of them had the power to stand up to the Western nations‚ and eventually both had to sign unequal treaties that forced them to open their ports and cities
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Romeo and Juliet * What ideas do they share * How has the director highlighted these connections Romeo and Juliet is the story of the relationship between the son and daughter of two families‚ which are enemies‚ the Montagues and the Capulets. Their families are against their plan to marry‚ and the story ends in the death of both lovers. In West Side Story‚ instead of families‚ there are two rival gangs in New York City‚ the Sharks and the Jets. One gang is "American" and the other gang
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The Walls Go Crashing Down When two people are meant to be together‚ no time is too long” (Anonymous). Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents show the pure evils of acting extremely hastily and how it can change the outlook on the future. Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers who were taught to hate one another and who suffer deeply because of the consequences of fate. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were sure to be tragic as was hinted at early on throughout
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The American Musical has often been used as a medium in which uncomfortable issues were boldly addressed. This has been the case for the issue of race and ethnicity in America‚ in particular the following musicals: Show Boat‚ Memphis‚ and West Side Story. The first two musicals addressed the issue of the integration of African Americans into American culture‚ with Show Boat‚ set in the early 1900s‚ focusing on the difficulty of true racial blending in America‚ and with Memphis‚ set in the 1950s
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in her essay‚ Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother and the Paradox of Iconicity. In this essay Stein examines the photograph Migrant Mother‚ taken by Dorothea Lange‚ and how its illusion of a Caucasian woman living during the Great Depression is completely the opposite of its reality‚ which is of a Native American woman surviving life in times of the American settlement. Because people become accustomed with their single view point‚ they fail to see the other side of the story and reveal
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