Yesterday Annie, Kristina and I went to the opening night of
Coppelia by Ballet Northwest. While reading over what the story was about I realized it was extremely similar to
Romeo and Juliet. The story is about a girl named Swanhilda who is in love with Franz. One day Swanhilda notices Franz blowing kisses to Coppelia, angry she sneeks into Coppelias house after Dr. Coppelius dropped his key. Once in the house she realizes that Dr. Coppelius is a doll maker and that Coppelia is a doll. Once Dr. Coppelius realizes they are in his house he cashes them out but not Swanhilda who faked being Coppelia. Trying a experiment Dr. Coppelius drugs Franz (who sneaked in trying to find Coppelia) with sleeping pills. After realizing that Swanhilda was acting like Coppelia, he chases her and Franz who she got to wake up out of his house. After saving his life Franz and Swanhildia get married and wanting them to be happy Dr. Coppelius forgave them both. Throughout the play I kept comparing Coppelia to Paris, Franz and Swanhilda as Romeo and Juliet. The only difference between the two plays is that in
Coppelia, Franz and Swanhilda got to live together happily in this life where Juliet and Romeo could not.
