Loyalty plays an important role that is accepted as noble and desirable. Both William Shakespeare’s playwright, Romeo and Juliet and directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s film, West Side Story deeply explores the concept and progress of loyalty through encounters and experiences throughout. Loyalty is illustrated within each of the families and/or gangs and shows that loyalty comes with a price and ultimately you must be prepared to make a sacrifice for it. Multiple times throughout both texts also makes evident that loyalty make people lose sight of judgement and causes them to confuse the difference of right from wrong. Loyalty is seen as a strong influence upon characters throughout both genres and shows how there is great faithfulness