Comparing Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet And Rainbow Rowell

     Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both have a lot in common as well as major differences that set them apart. Although West Side Story is a direct rendition of Shakespeare's original play, many of the themes and symbols are altered to fit the modern perspective. The characters have a direct correlation to each other, yet racial issues give them a new light. Many of the events also reflect each other, yet small differences give them uniqueness. West Side Story differs from Romeo and Juliet in characterizations, plot sequences, and themes.

Romeo and Juliet is the story of two young people who fall in love, despite the fact that their families have been enemies for ages. The story takes place over five days- Romeo and Juliet meet, fall in love, get married, and die in a very short amount of time. Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy who is forced into small ghettos by the Nazis during World War II. He and his family are later put on a train to an unknown destination along with other Jews from their town. I chose to compare and contrast about these two stories because both protagonists go through very similar things, but there are a lot of differences between these two stories.

Eleanor and Park’s class not only affects their relationships with their families, but also with each other. Park’s way of expressing his love reflects the loving nature that his family shows him. Park and his father both have an interest in women who are different. Park thinks that his Korean mother “kept the accent on purpose, because his dad liked it” (Rowell 46). Just as his dad marries a Korean woman – someone of a different race, Park starts a relationship with Eleanor – someone different from others. Both women’s appearances are different from their community, and both Park and his father come to love these differences. Park’s love for Eleanor is also expressed more greatly because Park knows love from his family. Unlike Park, Eleanor’s family expresses very minimal love (if any) towards her, which results in Eleanor’s held back love. Eleanor abandons Park at the end of the story like her mother abandoned her. Also, Eleanor keeps her love hidden even at the end when she writes a letter

The first tragic similarity in Romeo and Juliet and To Kill A Mockingbird is they both have conflicts. For example, the conflict of the Capulets and the Montagues is stated at the very beginning of the play. These two families are of equal

Eleanor & Park gives us interesting concept of two entirely different kinds of families: Park's loving, solid family life is in dissimilarity to Eleanor's desperate, poorly broken home. Not only that, we learn a lot about our two main characters because of the way they fit in or don' with their own families. Eleanor's been abandoned by her family, leaving her as an outsider even in her own house, and Park doesn't always share the same interests with his dad. Families make all the difference in the world in this book; Park's family brings Eleanor and Park together, but Eleanor's family tears them

Romeo and Juliet come from very different family backgrounds. The

Romeo and Juliet Comparison Essay The 2013 remake of the story of Romeo and Juliet was by far the greatest film to ever to behold these romantic characters! This story holds an important piece to everyone's hearts. Whether it be a breakup, a lonely time, or a night to just sit back and relax this movie gives everyone feeling of dread and romance. The 2013 remake makes it the best one out of them all by stretching the boundaries of good film and a written story but in every good movie there is the horrible version that hurts your soul from cringing.

Have you ever read two different quotes that you can relate to each other so much, but so little at the same time? In simpler terms, have you ever read two different articles that maybe have the same title, and same main points, but are substantially different once you dig in? Similarly, if Shakespeare and Disney were both given a rough draft of a production and told to do what they wanted with it, we would see the major differences we do today. Different eras, different political and world views, and different outlooks on life in general. Comparing these two works of art was exhilarating, and quite frankly, kind of difficult. Though you may see similar characters portrayed, the characters’ personalities are very different, and their

Romeo and Juliet are from different families which are both on a rival conflict with each other, Romeo and Juliet are not allowed to be together due to the conflict between their families, however it doesn’t stop them from falling in love. Romeo and Juliet decides to get secretly married with the help of Friar Lawrence. This can be seen when Juliet say’s “If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding grave.” This is evidence to Juliet being afraid to marry Romeo as they are both on families who are currently in conflict. Romeo and Juliet show similar themes to West Side Story.

There are many literary works out there that are fairly similar to each other. The ways the authors describes a scenes: it uses imagery words, the symbolic moments in the writing, the rich and creative language of the book, and so many more. If the readers reads carefully we can see the similarities. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and 12 Years a Slave written by Solomon Northup both set about a different time, but the authors had fairly similarities into theirs works. Many scenes that both authors uses in both their books were fairly similar and powerful symbolic moments.

The Shakespeare play i’m mostly familiar with is Romeo and Juliet, the tragedy. Romeo and juliet where two young beings who had a very strong bond together. Their love was very fast and created by first sight. However, their families are enemies with each other and didn’t get along very well. Romeo was apart of the Capulets and Juliet was apart of the Montagues.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen alludes to Romeo and Juliet. In both works, there is “forbidden” love to an extent. Romeo and Juliet are part of two feuding families. The Bennets are considered low class compared to Lady Catherine, the Bingleys, and Darcy’s family. The theme of unlikely lovers is prevalent in both works. Romeo and Juliet were predestined to never be friendly, due to their family’s history. Elizabeth Bennet was considered too low class for Darcy’s high class family. Lady Catherine, a noble woman, tries to convince Elizabeth to not marry Darcy because he is meant for someone rich and noble. However, Elizabeth is not convinced by her, which is similar to Romeo and Juliet’s disobedience to their family’s wishes. Additionally,

In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare there are two families that don’t get along and have conflict with each other. The two families that don’t get along and have conflict with each other are the Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo is from the Montague side and Juliet is from the Capulet side and they both fall in love with each other and forget about the enemies

Without a doubt every piece of text, film, poem, fairy tale, and story is a product of intertextuality. The idea of intertextuality is simple: there exists only one story but the idea of this story is “borrowed” to create more stories; the story is like a tree and it branches out into many more ideas for many more stories. “There’s no such thing as a wholly original work of literature.” (Foster 24) As Foster explains in his book, all literature is interconnected to a single story, one way or another. Often times when the writer uses other story ideas to create their own story, it helps the reader better understand what they’re reading because they’ve seen it before in another story. For example, intertextuality has helped me read Romeo and Juliet because I had watched the Titanic movie; both of these literary works revolve around a similar plot. One can see a similarity between these two stories because Romeo and Juliet are from different social classes just like Jack and Rose; due to this difference they’re not supposed to be together. However this is not impediment for these couples. Time brings them together as well as their sneaky ways and deceiving ideas; they manage to find ways to be together so no one will find out. Another similar aspect of both literary works is the ending: the character’s death. In Shakespeare’s work, Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide and

The literature genius William Shakespeare concocted two great stories which are very much different stories, but have intertwined themes and personalities. These two stories are the romantic play of Romeo and Juliet and the story about the descent to madness, Macbeth. Both of these fantastic plays have overlying arches about loyalty, love, and power. Furthermore, both of these plays have glaring differences such as the wildly different character dynamics.