Teenage Rebellion Teens are always about romance right? How come they just won’t listen to anyone at all, huh? Well, when you are at a young age, you tend to never think before you do you know. I was like that at one point and whoa!, what was I thinking!? Anyway, I am going to introduce you the difference between “Romeo and Juliet” and “West Side Story”, although they might just as well be the same story for crying out loud. The comparison between “Romeo and Juliet” and “West Side Story” is that they are very similar in many aspects. There are some cases that they differ from each other. In the story “West Side Story”, “Although Juliet seems more serious and mature at the beginning, Maria grows up during the course of the movie” (bartleby.com). In the “West Side Story”, everything is closely related …show more content…
The feeling in “West Side Story” everything is more modernized and they are more mature, which is no fun, “Romeo and Juliet” are more so romantic in many aspects of it is the most dramatic expression of love they are trying to give off. “I sent the Nurse at nine o'clock. Maybe she can’t find him. That can’t be. Oh, she’s slow! Love’s messengers should be thoughts, which fly ten times faster than sunbeams. They should be strong enough to push shadows over the dark hills. That’s the way doves carry Venus so fast, and that’s why Cupid has wings that let him fly as fast as the wind. Now it’s noon. That’s three hours since nine o'clock, but she hasn’t come back. If she was young and passionate, she’d move as fast as a ball. My words would bounce her to my sweet love, and his words would bounce her back to me. But a lot of old people act like they’re already dead—sluggish, slow, fat, and colorless, like lead” (sparknotes.com). In “Romeo and Juliet”, the expression of love is very exaggerate in the