"West Side Story" and "Romeo and Juliet" are basically a movie and a book about unlucky lovers from two different families. In the case of West Side Story, Maria is a young woman from a Puerto Rican family that has a brother in a gang called the Sharks. Tony is an American who has separated himself from his past gang, the Jets. In "Romeo and Juliet", Juliet comes from a royal family, the Capulets. Romeo …showed first 75 words of 407 total…

…showed last 75 words of 407 total…love. Their love was so strong that they were willing to go against years of hatred between their families. Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies written in 1595. The story itself was not anything new or different but the way Shakespeare wrote the story made it popular. The language that he used to communicate their love for each other was written poetically. Romeo and Juliet even touches the hearts of teenagers today.