Romeo And Juilet Compared To West Side Story

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These stories are all the same, true love at first sight and as they fall in love with each other. Their families hate each other or are planning to kill each other, but through all the fighting two people in a deep passionate love have unexpected turns in their love life. In Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story there are similarities between different characters in each of these stories and there are even scenes that are alike. As everyone knows in Romeo & Juliet Romeo a fair gentlemen and son of Montague falls in love with Juliet a daughter to Capulet. This is the same for West Side Story but Tony a local Jet falls in love with Maria a sister to a Shark. In Romeo & Juliet, Mercutio a friend to Romeo and a Kingman to Prince, but in West Side Story a young Jet named Riff, who was a friend to Tony. In Romeo & Juliet there was this beloved and somewhat crazy woman who had taken care of Juliet like her own and her name was Nurse. In the West Side Story there is a girl like a mother to Maria but in fact this woman is her brother’s girlfriend and her name is Anita. In Romeo & Juliet there is this temper-minded always looking for a fight character named Tybalt and in West Side Story this character Bernardo is also a character always looking for a fight and will never stop until he has succeeded. The ruler of the land in Romeo & Juliet Prince is trying to stop this feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. Were in the West Side Story Lt. Schrank is the leader of the streets and is a police officer who just wants peace between these two gangs. There is also in Romeo & Juliet a man named Friar Lawrence who kind hearted soul took care of Romeo when he got banished and tried to bring Romeo and Juliet together. In the West Side Story Doc, a also kind hearted soul took care of Tony when he killed Bernardo. The events in West Side Story and Romeo
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