West Side Story
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The expression everything old is new again is most applicable to the themes and story of West Side Story. The main themes are love, tragedy and justice but they also involve an exploration of urban gang life. The story itself, “a tale of star-crossed lovers on the verge of finding happiness together only to meet with tragedy”, is pretty much a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with modern settings and characters (Modernizing 1). However, where Shakespeare brilliantly used language to make his story come to life, the creators of West Side Story use music, song, and dance. In other words, the major themes and drama of the play are new (modern) but they are based on old (non-modern) themes and drama, least of which is the comment on the futility of feuding families and/or gangs. Instead of two warring families as in R
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Approximate Word count = 596
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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