Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Irving Shulman's Novelization of Arthur Laurent's West Side Story are two of the most famous love stories in the world. These two stories are telling us that love can't be always easy and happy because there also is the hardness of love. Both Romeo and Juliet, and Tony and Maria are from rival families. This is why both stories end in tragic ways. Two stories share a lot of similarities but there are also many differences in conflicts they face, the relationship between characters, and the settings. In West Side Story, they used guns, which is more modernized rather than using only swords Romeo and Juliet. .
In Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, both of the main characters fall in love with the enemy. Romeo and Juliet's parents (Montague and Capulet) were both rich and royal. They were rivals and hated each other. Romeo was in the family of Montague. However, Juliet was in the family of Capulet. After realizing that his newly found love was of rival blood, "And because "Nardo had thought of him as a brother-in-law, "Nardo had told him where he kept the gun.?(133) Romeo said, "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou off thyself, through not a Montague- (Shakespeare 2.2 41~42) In West Side Story, Tony and Maria were in the different sides of gangs. Tony was in the Jets. Jets were against the Sharks, Maria's brother's gang. .
"Romeo and Juliet?and "Tony and Maria?both met when the male main characters (Romeo and Tony) were depressed in feelings and fell in love at the first sight. Romeo was sorrowful, because he didn't get the answer of love from Rosaline. Romeo has a romantic characteristic, since he only talks and thinks of love. He went to the party with Mercutio and Benvolio by their suggestion. Mercutio was his best friend, and Benvolio was his cousin. They treated Romeo with pity, and tried to give him strength by saying that there are a lot of women in the world.
Shakespeare communicates this using a variety of dramatic techniques and I will also be outlining these in this essay. ... The setting which Shakespeare starts the play is dark, desolate and "bitter cold". ... It was Shakespeare's aim to communicate the inner conflict within Hamlet in this act and therefore, establish empathy between the audience and the character of Hamlet....
In the book entitled Shakespeare, John Middleton Murry wrote an analytical essay entitled Shakespeare's Method: The Merchant of Venice. In this essay, Murray says The Merchant of Venice is "a matter-of-fact fairy tale: a true folk story, made drama." ... John Middleton Murry states that what Shakespeare did not do "was to attempt to make it (the play) an intellectually coherent whole. ... (Murry, 192) Shakespeare did not want to put any reasoning behind the plot of his play because he knew it was going to be a hard task to accomplish so Shakespeare decided to let the pieces fall themsel...
There have been countless essays written about Shakespeare's sexual preference because of sonnets like 116 and 20. ... Love, to Shakespeare, is not a condition. ... Shakespeare did not see him as a man, though. ... Shakespeare begins this sonnet with erotic feelings. ... The penis is of no use to Shakespeare. ...
This also works outside of teaching Shakespeare as I have used this model for other topics, including poetry, where students can witness each other's efforts, build on and learn from such evaluative exercises. Giving pupils the opportunity to have ownership and responsibility during the scheme of work where Shakespeare is the focus seems to be key in engaging students. A leading figure advocating that Shakespeare should be included at a creative level in the classroom is Rex Gibson who believes in 'Active Methods' for teaching and learning: "Active Methods of teaching Sh...
William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. ... They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. ... Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. ... As described in the critical essay by Shirley Nelson Garner, the dominating male power and strange sex roles of the characters is fluent throughout the play. ... (Scott 376) The essay written by George A. ...
Before Shakespeare's formation and death he was just an ordinary poet among many others. ... In 1592, at the start of Shakespeare's career, a well-known writer at the time named Robert Green insulted Shakespeare by naming him an "upstart crow". ... If seen from a more positive perspective, this gave Shakespeare a huge opportunity and caused his popularity to increase, this lead Shakespeare to be taken more seriously and people were beginning to get influenced to giving Shakespeare interest because it implied that regardless of his education and his class, Shakespeare was ca...
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote 154 sonnets. ... In my essay I would like to discuss the second group, the so called Dark Lady Sonnets, with special attention to sonnets 129 and 130. ... Shakespeare differentiates between two types of love in his sonnet sequence. ... So Shakespeare feels that not his friend but the lady was guilty in this betrayal. ... Shakespeare tries to describe with these sonnets a certain kind of hopelessness . ...
The thing I have difficulty with is reading, not that I cannot read, but I just don't like reading, especially Shakespeare. ... For example, in my opinion this essay is not done the way I was supposed to do it, because no one showed me how to do one and I have not seen an example of how to do one, but after I hand it in I will see where I made the mistakes and I will try to correct them for next time. ... Shakespeare is very hard for me since I have to look at the footnotes to find out the meanings of the words, and during that time I forget what I was reading before. ...
The Best American Essays of the Century All of these essays were very carefully written essays. ... were three great essays from the book The Best American Essays of the Century. ... This essay also gives credit to William Shakespeare for his writing because he is one of the greatest writers of all time. ... Anyone that reads this essay will have to feel something that this essay is talking about. The last essay was Shouting "Fire!" ...
