Differences Between Laurence's West Side Story And Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
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Laurence's West Side story is an apparition of Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet. West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet differ in many ways. Romeo and
Juliet is set in Verona in about 1594. West Side Story takes in New York City
in 1957. Tony is the modern character of Romeo and Maria is the moder ....
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.... herself but instead she puts her sadness into
treating the two gangs with a gun. When Romeo finds Juliet supposedly dead he
drinks poison to kill himself too. Chino killed Tony because Chino was in love
with Maria but so was Tony. This is just one way that Romeo and Juliet differ
from West Side Story.
Another way the two stories differ is the wealth of the two families, or
gangs. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare describes the
Montague's and the Capulet's houses. The si ....
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