Romeo and Juliet vs. West Side Story

“Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then oh brawling love, oh, loving hate.” Tony and Romeo are both alike in many ways, yet many things do differ between them. The largest similarity between these two characters is both are in a gang per say. Romeo is a Montague who hates the Capulets, and Tony is a Jet who hates the Sharks. At the beginning of both play and movie Romeo and Tony are both sad, but for different reasons. Romeo is in love with Rosaline, but she does not love him back. Tony, however, does not have a love interest at this point in the movie and is merely sad. When Romeo decides to go to the Capulet ball, he is going to see Rosaline, not to help set u

p a fight like Tony is doing when he goes to the dance to help Riff out. Both Romeo and Tony try to stop the fight between their respective sides, but both end up killing someone instead. When Tony kills Bernardo he is not banished as Romeo is when he kills Tybalt. Finally the largest difference between Romeo and Tony is how the both die. Romeo kills himself out of love for Juliet. On the other hand Tony is killed by Chino. Even though these two characters are very different their basic outlines are the same.

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.” Now to Juliet and Maria, there are more differences between these two characters than similarities. The largest similarity between the two characters is that both are scheduled to be married. Juliet is to marry the County Paris and Maria to marry Chino. One of the larger differences is that Juliet has no siblings where as Maria has a brother. Another difference is with the dance scene, Maria clearly states that this will be her first dance, for Juliet this may be different. Being a noble, Juliet has most likely attended many previous dances or balls. When Maria found out Tony was a Jet, she had no doubts about her love for him,

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