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From our early beginnings to now in modern times, friends factor greatly into one’s decision making process and subsequent actions. It is human nature to be affected by the thoughts and opinions of those held close to us. Countless similarities are displayed between plays and their modern-day adaptations, ranging from major influences such as setting to finer details like character traits. Nevertheless, being that they are adaptations, stark differences from the original can be discovered, too. The star-crossed lovers of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, and West Side Story are equally affected by their friends and others close to them, but are influenced in evidently dissimilar ways.

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all,” (Lord Tennyson, “Canto 27). Can one really say that loving and losing is better than never feeling that love, when both choices are riddled with error? The following stories referenced, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, “Pyramus and Thisbe” retold by Ovid, and “Duty” by Pamela Rafael Berkman, show the contrast between sacrificing love and sacrificing life. Romeo and Juliet, as well as Pyramus and Thisbe, sacrificed everything for love. Lady Capulet, on the other hand, sacrificed her love for the obligations she felt she had to her family. Neither resulted in the long-standing happiness, so who made the right choice? The star-crossed lovers, whose death brought them

Love is a universal language, and is recognized everywhere on Earth. When looking at love and all that is encompasses, it is hard for there to be one main definition of love. Edna St. Vincent Millay depicts love as something that will not last forever, and that one could fall-out of love. However, Millay conveys her experience with love, as fact, when it is prevalent her fact deals with faults in ones love for another, but one does not fall-out of loving someone they once loved. There is hope for ever-lasting love, through understanding the concepts that lie behind love; while searching for real-life stories of couples who have solidified their love through life-long commitments.

In every story you’ve ever heard we find archetypes, we find the “damsel in distress”, “the savior”, “the wise old leader”, “the forbidden lovers”. These famously known figures are found everywhere. We see these very precise archetypes especially in William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, and in Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Now, we are going to look at some of the biggest similarities between the two stories.

William Shakespeare once wrote, “It is not in the stars to hold people’s destiny but in themselves.” Despite the depth of an ancient family feud, Romeo and Juliet pursued their love together, considered by some to be infatuated, even when given many obstacles to overcome. Rather than live without one another, the two teens took their lives to put the everlasting feud to a halt. Romeo and Juliet are victims of destiny, star-crossed lovers whose death’s are inevitable of doom due to their lack of approval from society, passion of love, and unfortunate luck.

When the word love is heard, what comes to mind? Is it that special connection once shared with a long lost lover? Or maybe it wasn’t a lover at all but a friend, who not only loved you for you, but showed you how to love yourself. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns,author Khaled Hosseini portrays love in many different ways. Three vital themes concerning love outshines many of the themes throughout this novel. Love can cause the happiness of the people who receive it, it strengthens and brings out sides of us that we were too scared to embrace, and it causes people to make sacrifices for the benefit of others.

Usually when we think about love at first sight, we jump to the thought of just seeing them and instantly falling in love, like something Disney movies portray. But when we take this to a realistic level, these thoughts we jump into first, might not always be the reality for a situation with “love at first sight”. With “love at first sight,” we see all things going well, but in reality, not all the problems eventually have the answer found, resulting in the typical “happily ever after” ending. One such example is the Shakespearean famous play of Romeo and Juliet, where this play displays the realities of life with the competing thoughts of choosing desires to necessities to what is inevitable. This play shows the story of young love between families of Capulet and Montague, who are fierce rivals of each other. These two young people, who love each other immensely, try to find a brighter light to live together freely without their families’ opinions coming between them. This play by William Shakespeare portrays their story of love with the missing element of maturity, which is much needed by the main

Many readers identify The Great Gatsby as an American classic due to the fact that it rips away at “The American Dream.” This novel takes place within the roaring twenties where the American dream could only be described as wealth and power. In The Great Gatsby, one of the main characters, Daisy Buchanan, lusts after this, but she must choose between love or safety, and this struggle illuminates F. Scott Fitzgerald’s theme for the work as a whole.

Two young lovers who are passionate about one another “fall in love” & get married. This marriage is rushed for them to think it would solve their family differences. Romeo a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet, their last names have started feuds and rivalry for the longest going back to their ancestry. Their hasty desire of getting married and Romeo’s banishment from Verona proves that anything can withstand their love. As passionate as their love is their love ends in a tragedy with death coming to silence them and their love dying off. Who’s to blame for the two star-crossed lover deaths?

The word storm represents a violent disturbance of the atmosphere. Vigorous winds, large amounts of rain, thunder, lightning, and unpredictable temperatures. However, the word storm can take on various meanings when applied to life situations. Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” displays a story that focuses on two main characters, Calixta and Alcee. While the story centers around an actual storm that forces Bobinot, Calixta’s husband, from the house for an extended period of time, the inner storm that erupts for Calixta when Alcee arrives delineates a metaphoric storm. Their brief love affair is referred to the title, where the word “storm” exemplifies the strong erotic passion and lack of discipline among them.

The word storm represents a violent disturbance of the atmosphere. Vigorous winds, large amounts of rain, thunder, lightning, and unpredictable temperatures. However, the word storm can take on various meanings when applied to life situations. Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” displays a story that focuses on two main characters, Calixta and Alcee. While the story centers around an actual storm that forces Bobinot, Calixta’s husband, from the house for an extended period of time, the inner storm that erupts for Calixta when Alcee arrives delineates a metaphoric storm. Their brief love affair is referred to the title, where the word “storm” exemplifies the strong erotic passion and lack of discipline among them.

Literature often illuminates the shared aspects of human nature. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, explains, “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” Both Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” and Bernard Malamud’s “The First Seven Years” illustrate the importance of unconditional love to humanity. These short stories describe an important conclusion about human nature: unconditional love can provide the strength necessary to persevere.

Promenading along the storyline, it is not too difficult for movie-goers to stumble upon the recurrent theme which is amazingly added, not blatantly, but artistically and suavely. When people are young, they are unable to pursue both their career and their love. When they get either of them, looking back, and the other has vanished already . That is the anguish Chazelle wants to depict and he has successfully superimposed his point of view to create a hard-luck but pragmatic story. La La Land is beautiful in each of its sequence, in the bundle of feelings it leads people through. They descry themselves in both Mia and Sebastian, young, bold and brave with a palpitating heart gasping for love and being loved, for dedication and contribution. They find a romantic love story which is similar to theirs in several scenes of the movie, a passionate love with daydreaming dates, a stealthy kiss when the cinema goes black, the

The Shakespearean playwright resulted in great tragedy when two star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, fell deeply in love with each other, continuing the blight between the two households. Which has been notably occurring in more than just this universally known Shakespeare play. In both Romeo and Juliet and the book Black City by Elizabeth Richards, the characters experience love that comes with consequence, and adults with good wishes bringing even more heartache for them.

When we hear of the word love, we may have experienced it before, but could be a challenge to put it into words, or create a definition of it. “Enduring Love” by Ian McEwan presents many types of “love” throughout its story line, and each of them present distinctive natures of love. It also makes clear of what love is made up of.