West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet Comparison Thesis Ah, young love. The feeling and emotion driving two hormonal teenagers to do questionable things. The thought that it 's only the two lovers who matter. The belief in fairytale endings. Young love, when forbidden, perhaps forges bonds between the lovers, allowing them to grow closer. They grow stronger, because they share the secret of their love. But why is their love forbidden? Is there an ongoing feud between the two families? Alas, these two
adaptations, stark differences from the original can be discovered, too. The star-crossed lovers of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a drama by William Shakespeare, and West Side Story are equally affected by their friends but are influenced in dissimilar ways. Despite playing the same role, the Nurse and Anita provide very distinct influences to Juliet and Maria through the course of the stories. Having lost her own child at a young age, Nurse sees Juliet Capulet as her own daughter. Respectively, Nurse
Similarly to Tonight from West Side Story, (as seen in the extract above) the beginning of the song is spoken. The inmates say, softly, almost seductively: “Pop…six…squish…cicero…lipshitz” This sets the mood of the song and immediately grabs the audience’s attention. All That Jazz and Cell Block Tango from Chicago both exhibit influences from the jazz genre and are both up beat and simple melodically, compared to Maria and Tonight from West Side Story which are more like ballades with smooth flowing
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin