Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg both have many messages to take away from them. One similar one is that Violence only leads to more Violence. In Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, the main conflicts are the rumbles in the stories causing many characters to feel grief and wanting vengeance. It gives the message of how if violence is used to solve problems it causes more violence to arise. In the story Romeo and Juliet, there is a scene when the police arrive at the scene where the Capulets and Montagues were having a quarrel. The chief policeman went up and started separating them all with their race. In the West Side story, ”Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down! Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!” The policemen in the movie hated the Puerto rican people so they were on the other side of the fight supporting the white people, causing them both to have more hatred toward one another. …show more content…
Mercutio finds out about it then fights Tybalt. As stated in the text, “Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry beat the rest of the eight”(Shakespeare, Act 3 Scene 1, lines 78-80). Mercutio was not going to let Tybalt fight Romeo if he refused to so he stepped up and asked to fight for Romeo. In the West Side Story, Bernardo, Maria's brother, wants to fight Tony but he also refuses to fight in the movie causing his friend Riff to fight Bernardo because Tony was done. In West Side story, Bernardo says, “This day's black fate on more days doth depend;/This but begins the woe