Prejudices in "The West Side Story" by Arthur Laurents

The book of "West Side Story" by Arthur Laurents is scheduled for contemporary version of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet in the mid - 1950' s. The West End story is a romantic tragedy, two people are said to be completely different, and it is not accepted when falling in love. "Differences" between these roles focus on their prejudice between each other. Prejudice is a harsh view and emotion that has never been formed. Jets and sharks use many prejudices against other races, gender and age.

Arthur Laurents's "West Side Story" has many prejudices. Prejudice is something you do not like or hate, without just reason or sufficient knowledge. Prejudice in the Westside story is related to people type, race, gender. Sometimes prejudice may be meaningless in a small amount, sometimes prejudice is very serious, leading to death. Prejudice is the subject of this story, and there are many examples. For example, the behavior of prejudice in the story of the Western Region, the Puerto Rican people dislike Americans and vice versa. The first day Bernardo (the leader of the public relations team) jumped to one of the jet teams, so the public relations company puzzled the Americans. Jet aircraft to prevent PR from coming to their site like Doc store. In the United States PR is not wanted, they are also very unpleasant. Americans are biased against Puerto Ricans, so they do cruel things to them.

The western district story (1957) brought Romeo and Juliet to modern New York City, transforming the family of turbulent Montague and Capri to the opposite ethnic group, jet plane and shark. The book was adapted by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein played the music, and a rookie Stephen Sondheim sang. Although critics are popular, it is not a common choice for "blue hair women". Apparently the Tony Award 's voters have a similar idea because they support the former rather than the latter. There are 732 performances (1,040 in the west) in the western area, but "musicians" has about 1,375 performances and about twice the show time. However, the West End's story movie has been very successful.

West Side Story is recording by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. This is said to be an interpretation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". The story of West End and Romeo and Juliet have many similarities and differences in many respects. Work Romeo and Jurriette began in Verona in 1594. In contrast, the story of the Western Region was held in New York City in 1957. Most of the characters in the western district can be seen as modern versions of many characters in the Shakespearean plays. Romeo and Juliet. Tony can be regarded as Romeo, Maria as Juliet, Jet as Montage, Shark as Nurse, Leave as Mercurio, Bernardo as Tilbert, Dr. Flare Lawrence, Baltazar. Chino plays Paris, the police acts the prince, Anybodys and Baby John play Bemborio. The story of West End and many scenes of Romeo and Juliet are very similar.