Chapter 5: "Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?"

Intertextuality is the idea that there is only one story; all stories derive from other stories. No text is completely original and all texts are related in one or more ways. For example, hundreds of stories are closely related to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The newer Twilight series written by Stephanie Meyer have the same tale of two star-crossed lovers, young people falling madly in love in an unrealistically short amount of time, and at some point each risk their life for the other. There is a similar plot is the famous musical, West Side Story. This iconic story of love and risk has arisen in so many works for centuries; romance is a key aspect of most stories. This shows that all stories are connected by aspects such as love.