The musical “Annie Get Your Gun” is a theatrical production with the music and lyrics written by Irving Berlin who is one of the most famous American composer and lyricist. Also, Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields wrote the dialogue. The entire show depicts the nineteenth century romantic story of American sharpshooter woman, Annie Oakley, who falls in love with another sharpshooter man, Frank Butler. The authors tried to present all characters helped to develop the plot by having the love between Annie and Frank as a central topic of the show. Hence, this paper will examine the theme of this production about the power of love will always motivate a person to do whatever for his/her lover without any careful decision, in addition, use the evidences from the show to support the above argument. The initial reaction of Annie when she meets Frank at the first time is a good example of the power of love that mostly influences her significant decisions throughout the story. After the appearance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, it brings Annie and Frank to meet each other Annie instantly feels like …show more content…
This request actually comes from Charlie and Buffalo Bill wish to bring the opposite company down, but Annie still agrees to do that because it is a perfect time to surprise Frank Butler with her ability. After the show, she becomes the star of sharpshooter. She doesn’t realize that it will be the cause of a declined relationship between her and Frank. Frank walks out from the Wild West Show and out of her life. As we can see, the librettist wants to make this romantic story not only a straight forward plot of the love, but also the happiness and sorrow. In the case of Annie, she wishes to be a hero, but Frank doesn’t have a sense like that. Not every activity that follows the heart will always have a positive consequence, but it can have a negative