West Side Story Theme Essays

In West Side Story, Anita is the nurse’s role, but Maria has a close relationship with her parents, unlike Juliet whose best friend was the nurse.In West Side Story, Maria is on the fire escape of her family’s apartment, and she overhears Tony singing about how he loves her, but, Tony sort of sneaks up on her, so technically both stories show likenesses in these scenes too.Aside from the similarities between Romeo and Tony or Juliet and Maria, there are many other likenesses such as the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet and the fire escape scene in West Side Story.In Romeo and Juliet the scene starts off with Romeo listening to Juliet give her “What’s in a name?” speech, and similarly, in West Side Story the scene starts off with Maria o...

West Side Story is an energetic, widely-acclaimed musical, a modern-day, loose re-telling of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet tragedy of feuding families.Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both have a lot in common as well as major differences that set them apart including the settings, characters, and plot.Juliet 's suitor, Paris, is neutral and is on neither side of the feud.Although both of these stories have many similarities, there are also many differences that set the two apart and help them to both become two of the most popular tragedies of all time.Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, two timeless dramas that will live on forever.

The American setting for West Side Story shows a renewal of those sentiments and an ability developed over time to accept and acknowledge problems within an audience’s own environment.This aspect of American society in the 1950’s moulded the setting and plot for West Side Story.West Side Story shows the Capulets replaced by the Sharks, a street gang made up of Hispanic males and the Montagues replaced by the Jets, a gang of local boys who dislike the idea of foreigners intruding on their ‘turf’.It can be seen that West Side story focused not on the violence of the text but the issues it raised, such as love and hatred.The violence in West Side Story is relatively tame, viewed by a contemporary audience.

However the violence presented in Baz Lermann’s Romeo and Juliet is vastly different as in the original it portrays tragedy and doom but Lurmann creates an element of humour drawn from common stereotypes of the race of the actors he chose to portray each character, for example in the near beginning of the film when the Capulet’s meet the Montague’s at the petrol station a western theme is indicated letting the audience know that there will be some sort of violent act, a common theme of the western film genre.West side story is also an adaptation of the Broadway musical which inspiration was drawn from the original text of Romeo and Juliet it is directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.It uses the basic story line of Romeo and Juliet bu...

Eventually, the tensions between their families are too intense for them to bear, and the lead lovers of the story, Romeo and Juliet, commit suicide.To begin, the motives for the feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet as well as the fighting between the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story are quite similar, yet very distinct.West Side Story.West Side Story follows a similar plot, with a less dramatic finale.This tragic play tells the story of two teenagers from opposing families, the Capulets and the Montagues, who fall in love with each other against all odds.

Well, just take a look at West Side Story, and you will have your answers.A retelling that has garnered its own wide audience appeal over the past four decades, showing that certain tales can stand the test of time more than once, provided the content and context effectively reflects the world within which it occurs.Granted, instead of tension between feuding families, West Side Story offers prejudice between races, as illustrated between street gangs, the Jets and Sharks.Romeo & Juliet vs. West Side Story What would Romeo and Juliet be like if Juliet hadn't died?Some of the characters in West Side Story are carbon copies of those in Romeo and Juliet: Maria (Juliet), Tony (Romeo), Bernardo (Tybalt), Lt. Schrank (Prince), and Anita (N...

Whether the story of the young lovers is portrayed on television, film, Broadway, or in music lyrics, people have always enjoyed the story of Romeo and Juliet.“West Side Story” is about two gangs: the Puerto Rican “Sharks” and the rich, white “Jets”.“West Side Story” has also been adapted for the main stage and remains in production both on and off Broadway.Cinematic productions such as “The Ringer”, “West Side Story”, “Gnomeo and Juliet”, The Baz “Romeo and Juliet”, and the Zeffereli version of “Romeo and Juliet”, utilize allusions from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet continues to serve as a traditional love story which inspires artists to create and fashion their own unique interpretations through various ...

Fitzgerald suggests that Eckleberg is a symbol in the story which substitutes for God.This fictional area of New York, East and West Egg, are home to many wealthy families and individuals.The contrasting side, East Egg, is a place of sophisticated social connections.Nick Carraway, the narrator, first introduces West Egg to the reader when he mentions that he had moved there from the mid-west United States.There are many relationships in the novel which greatly contribute to the story.

In West side story the composer has a different approach to the mentor.In west side story the dance style is mambo, and mambo is originally from Cuba and came over to America, so the dance doesn’t really go with the culture of the Brazilians or the Americans but however because it became popular in night clubs, resort hotels in the heart of New York and Miami, so by using this style of dance and music the composer wants to convey an ‘night out’, although in Oklahoma, the music is very much to do with their culture and style as it is country side music which the composer portrays very well.When looking at the two musicals, you can see how both of the the composers use characters to move the story along, and both composers differentiate th...

Moreover, separated by a long river, on the other side is East Egg where people made of generations of wealth live.The story is set in the early 1920s in New york because it focuses on the society of that time and is particularly focused on the factors such as prohibition of alcohol, the glamour of new york and also the way that Tom, Nick Gatsby and daisy all escape from the mid west, a small minded town, and become successful living the American dream.Valley of ashes shows the less happier side of the American Dream.The main setting of The Great Gatsby is New York City, Long Island where the story is based in.Despite all his money, Gatsby lives in West Egg, suggesting that he has not been able to complete his transformation into a membe...

Fitzgerald makes the relationships between each character and their role in the story very clear to the reader.In contrast, West Egg is the area where the wealth of the residents is newly acquired, in other words, “new money”.The setting is crucial to the characters and events in the story.It is a stretch of land between New York City and West Egg, that the characters pass through many times throughout the novel to reach their destinations.The location of the characters that live on either side, plays a big part in the novel.

The social setting of the story affects the resolution as well.For example, East Egg and West Egg are both places in which people of great wealth live but Nick clearly states that East Egg is where the “classier” people live.The story is set during the summer in which Tom Buchannan, his wife, Daisy, Jordan Baker, (all three from West Egg in Long Island where all the “old rich” live) and Nick’s lives intertwine with Gatsby’s into a marvelous story of love, crime and lavish Jazz Age debauchery.I lived at West Egg, the – well, the less fashionable of the two.” This indicated that even though Gatsby is really wealthy, there still exists a distinction of class between Gatsby and Daisy, which he is never going to be able to ignore.As the socia...

In the time of the Great Depression, this was a hard theme to live by.In The Grapes of Wrath the story followed the Joad family from their home in Oklahoma to California.Death, starvation, homelessness, poverty, no matter what the hard ache, Ma Joad saw the brighter side of things.This story was not a “rags to riches” story.And another theme in this novel was, “No matter how poor you are, you always have something to give.” The Joads and the other families they encountered, like the Wilsons and the Wainwrights, were always willing to give to someone less fortunate, even if they had little for themselves.

” In the novel, all of the main characters are originally from the Western side of America, past the Appalachians and amongst the midwestern plains and the northern states.The West Egg area of New York is where all these newly rich Westerners have flocked with their wealth.The hedonism featured within the actions of those who live in the West Egg is clearly a representation of the parallel decadence, materialism and corruption which was taking place in America at that time.The West Egg has been created and chosen to represent the new America; the America of celebrities, alchohol, parties and huge new degrees of freedom for women.Standing opposite the new wealth of the West Egg is that of the East Egg, a representation of the old rich and...

Starting with the musical of Gene Kelly’s Singing in the Rain in 1952, the basic trends that can be obtained relates to the rise of showbiz careers by the protagonist (Don Lockwood portrayed by Gene Kelly) of the story, while the antagonist (Lina Lamont as Jean Hagen) sabotages the success of Lockwood’s musical career (Green and Schmidt, 1999 p. 70).The changes and shifts within Hollywood musical have always considered the trends present within the society.Meanwhile, Fame in 1980 has provided a unique and a total diversion of theme from the last three socially oriented movies.Much has been changed and shifted as depicted through the movies of Singing in the Rain (1952), West Side Story (1961), Godspell (1973), Fame (1980) and Hairspray (...

Jay Gatsby is a very important and impressive character in the plot of the story, serving his role as the protagonist.Stopping at nothing, he buys his mansion on West Egg to be close to her, and throws parties every weekend, in an attempt to “lure” her back into his arms.The most relevant theme is the ideal of the “American Dream”.Therefore, I believe that The Great Gatsby is the greatest American Novell yet to be released.There is definitely an underlying theme at work in this novel that gets it so much attention.

Even though it is written in the third person, Dickens still makes us feel close to the characters by making the narrator like another person that is part of the story.‘He do bring’ is an example of West Country phrases used by Hardy to create a better image how it is actually like in the countryside during the nineteenth century.The staves signify each of the main events of the story, which in this case is the appearances of the spirits.In ‘The Withered Arm’, Hardy captures the spirit of the West Country by the language he uses in his descriptions and his dialogue.Their speech is more colloquial and contains the West Country dialect and phrases.

The colours used for the Spelthorne form were purple were as the west themes used grey and Hounslow used green and white the colours were good but if they had changed them on the Spelthorne form it would have been better because the application is at the end of the prospectus the reader got sick of seeing purple so they may think they will fill the form in another day this could loose the collage people.3.6 West Themes application form .West Themes only has one boarder which is on the left hand side of the page were as Spelthorne has a boarder going around the whole page, Hounslow part time courses does not have a boarder at all.West Themes prospectus .Looking at West themes application form I clearly saw that there were more questions a...

First of all, Marlow came face to face with death several times throughout his voyage.During Marlow’s journey into the “heart of darkness,” death, corruption, and despair became the manifest themes of the novel.In this novel, the narrator of the story, Marlow, Conrad's protagonist, travels up the Congo in search of Kurtz, an ivory trader, and eventually ends up in the “heart of darkness.” Conrad also used his pessimistic view of life for the basis of Heart of Darkness.It evolved itself...and behold!--it knits....It knits us in and it knits us out.Conrad’s fatalistic attitude is evident when he explained to his friend R. B. Cunninghame Graham: “There is...a machine.

New York City and Tennessee of “The Sensible Thing”portrayed the East and West Egg of The Great Gatsby in that New York City was lavishing and captivating, while Tennessee represented mediocrity and dullness.In “The Sensible Thing,” as well as other Fitzgerald works, the idea of wealth, social status, and love played a major part in the theme, setting, and subject matter.Idolizing wealth is a clearly seen theme throughout “The Sensible Thing.” In particular, George’s lower social status caused Jonquil’s shallowness to be brought out, and she would not marry him until he became financially stable because she felt it was not “the sensible thing” (Bruccoli 191).Throughout Fitzgerald’s novels and short stories, a familiar theme appears which...

The underlying theme is about a boy leaving the protection and safety of his parents to enter the world by himself.However, this poem is not simply a story of a boy starting to walk to school on his own.The remaining lines of the poem follow in a sequential AA, BB rhyming pattern.An understanding between the boy and his parent’s permits extended glances across the street, but not eye contact.The author uses vivid description to allow the reader to develop a mental picture of what takes place.

They end up getting a hotel room in downtown New York City which was just as hot if ... .Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby have been invited to tea at Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s home.That was until chapter seven of the novel.They eventually agree and all go to town.This was a very critical portion of the plot due to the increasing pressures Gatsby and Daisy are feeling about their relationship, and when they will tell Tom of their affair.

Nonetheless, even as he is used as an example of the good side of the American Dream at first, he eventually becomes a sample of the intrinsic hazards of its lifestyle.Similarly, it could be contended that it represents the “good” life that got away from him – the life of an honorable man who achieved the American Dream and got the girl (Daisy).The “green light” is a common theme throughout and it can be said to represent all of Gatsby’s dreams (the green light is often away in the distance).This finds Nick in understandably reflective mood at the death of his friend as he muses that “Gatsby believed in the green light, the future that year by year recedes before is…tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther” (Fitzgerald, 1925...

The author provides more than a valuable contribution to examining the American West; it can be considered as a classic in the field of American Western history.For Limerick, the study of the West is of great importance for American history in general; this is largely because the West as a place remains an important meeting ground for Blacks, Spaniards, Indians, Asians, and Anglos.Completely aware that Westerners, when they heard of the Census Bureau announcement of he frontier’s end, did not drop what they were doing, pause for a few moments, and then go back to business in a different mode, Limerick has written a book that stresses “the unbroken past of the American West.” For her, rejecting the frontier as the overriding thematic fram...

On these drawings no Centaur appears, which causes a problem of interpretation of the general theme on this side.The divinity with the shield is most often identified with Ares: it is the third male divinity on the east side of the frieze and which is present on the left side of the east pediment.South I, XXIV, XXV and XXVII to XXXII north and the fourteen metopes of the west facade are still in place, sometimes in very poor condition (west VI and VII have lost all their decoration), sometimes intact (south I and north XXXII) .It is the fact that women are present in this centauromachy (as moreover on the west pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia) that makes it possible to identify this precise episode, even if it seems that some gu...

In dealing with the issues of ethnic and cultural diversity, the Western films have a profound tendency to the stereotyped images of the Chinese as the right to enter their domain, although is related with the images of the Chinese with the experience in the West and Western mainstream culture for the hundred years, the Chinese people’s images as the “otherness” of marginalization in the Western images, in its behind of “fictional mold”, it reflects the Western mainstream filmmakers’ Orientalism thinking.Historically, the West led by a fictional East make the West have the ontological differences with the East, and make the West to use for adventures and biased vision to see the East, thereby creating its own nation completely different ...

The story is focused on the actual story not the background this is why we don’ t learn much about the setting.After reading more of the story I got a feeling that the story is set in America since the dialogue used is remotely like the Americans and not English for example, “pick it up brother”, snapped a cop’, the word brother is used quite a lot in a America and not here in England.Once again as I kept reading on I found a vital piece of information which would tell us where the story is set and this is that it was a small village with shacks near to the river Mississippi which would mean the story is set in Western America, this may explain why the area is not very developed.Also the words ‘firearms’ and ‘sidewalk’ are American words...

In my opinion, the climax also involves the hurdles that they went through, the part where the Wicked Witch of the West sent wolves, bees and winged monkeys to tear all of them to pieces.In my opinion, characters determine the mood of the story and the flow of the story.The third person objective point of view is a story told by a narrator that knows everything in the story and his knowledge is unlimited.Major characters also develop according to the plot of the story and are present throughout the whole story.Other than that, the melting of the Wicked Witch of the West being compared to brown sugar is also an example of simile.

Sometimes however he shares them with his brother Sodapop because he does not judge him and tries to be understanding of Ponyboy’s different side.Johnny was amazed by the lines and Ponyboy learned that Johnny had a different side too.To conclude, the story of The Outsiders has good content, even though it is an older one.Throughout the story Ponyboy becomes more experienced, mature and understanding.The greasers are the poor ones who live on the east side of town and the socs are the rich ones living on the west side of town.

Sure the title might sound a little generic or even unoriginal at first but it does raise some curiosity and it seems to fit the story perfectly.This title mainly refers to Gatsby as a lover, which he was but that is not the only thing that the story is about.The entire story and the way Nick tells it makes it seem as a sort of tribute to Gatsby and everything he represented and the novel being named this adds to his tribute and “greatness”.This title makes sense to me because Gatsby was essentially trying to find a “road to West Egg.” In my mind West Egg symbolized Daisy and all the millionaires born into their wealth, Gatsby was after these things or on the road to them but was never able to fully make it there.“On the Road to West Egg...