Comparing Juliet And West Side Story

I believe that Juliet and Maria are so called the “engineers” of their respective lovers. Firstly, because during the setting of both their times (late fifteen-century for Romeo and Juliet and the late 50’s for West Side Story) women were not that prominently empowered to stand up for themselves specially to fight for love or even what they truly believed in. Moreover, strong women like Juliet and Maria are exceptional during their times, most importantly how they broke traditions like choosing a forbidden partner. In both their cases, from the beginning two opposing families who despise each other. Although, both strong female characters still followed for what their hearts desired and fought for their love even though it resulted a tremendous

It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face nor any part belonging to a man. O be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.” Further in West Side Story, the scene where Maria and Tony almost got caught by Anita in her bedroom. Obviously, Anita disagreed with their secret relationship but Maria stood up for her love and defended Tony from Anita. These quote and scene justify how these empowered women are the “engineers” of their relationship because they still fought for love and did not let anyone even their families affect their

Trust in an incomprehensible, yet a relatable component of humanity which we are all too familiar with. It can either be found in the most affectionate of relationships, whilst simultaneously misplaced trust can result in the most inconsolable heartbreaks imaginable. Luckily, in the case of Maria and Juliet’s relationships, their trust made both their loves unconditional and unbreakable. In act 2 scene 2, Juliet showed her trust to Romeo since she expects him to come back for her “Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow, by one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay and follow thee my lord throughout the world.” On the other hand, the scene in West Side Story where Tony visited Maria in the boutique, Anita was also there, she said to him “I believe in you.” Tony replied this assurance statement “Of course, I got you.” Both scenes show how high the value of trust Juliet and Maria had for Romeo and Tony respectively. For the reason that, Juliet and Maria expect that their partners would not break this promise of trust than love. After all, I believe George Macdonald famous quote “to be trusted is greater