Is It Really A Tragedy In Romeo And Juliet

If only Romeo accepted his duel against Tybalt but he didn’t so Romeo says “Tybalt, the reason that i have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting.”(3.1.63). Mercutio gets impatient of Romeo so he challenges Tybalt to a duel. When mercutio is dying Romeo kills Tybalt for revenge. Romeo was banished from Verona by the prince. An apothecary sells him poison to kill himself in Juliet’s tomb because he never received the letter from Friar Lawrence but he did hear about Juliet dead. When Romeo arrives at the tomb Paris is in the way of killing himself Romeo said to Paris”Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee boy.”(5.3.70) Romeo kills Paris. When Romeo sees Juliet dead he kisses her one last time and drinks the poison, before Romeo dies he says this” O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I

Romeo’s overly emotional personality and his obsession with love override his rational thought, which causes the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. After hearing of what is thought to be the death of Juliet, Romeo decides that he cannot live without his true love. In despair, he says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight./Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift/To enter in the thoughts of desperate man” (V.i 37-39). Romeo then buys

When Friar John fails to bring the letter to Romeo, Romeo obviously does not know the “death” of Juliet. Juliet gets the potion from Friar Lawrence to make it seem as if she were dead. The family had scheduled a wedding that day for her but it had to be canceled because of her faked death. When Benvolio takes off to Mantua he tells Romeo the news that she had died he goes crazy and gets poison from a poor Apothecary. Then he has sent out to find Juliet and when he does he says:”O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks.”,(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines

At the beginning of every Shakespearean play their is a prologue. The prologue basically tells the audience what is going to happen throughout the play. Within the prologue of Romeo and Juliet it states, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers take their life.”(prologue. 5-6) The story of Romeo and Juliet is quite unfortunate. With twists and turns of “death-marked love”(prologue. 9). With joy and loss. With events of love, fight, of death. All leading up to the doom of lovers Romeo and Juliet. In this story, I believe the lovers are not to blame for their death, but instead the blame lies in the hands of their loved ones.

In act III of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses the foreshadowing of Romeo & Juliets death to show how dangerous loe can be when not handled properly, and in Romeo and Juliet they are keeping their love a secret from almost everyone. Juliet is just informed that someone has died she doesn’t know who but she says “And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!” (III.2.60) meaning that if Romeo is dead she wants to be buried next to him implying she doesn’t want to live without him. Romeo & Juliets love is so pure and both are so new to love they cannot be without their love. This is dangerous because Romeo gets close to dying being in a fight with Juliet's cousin because he doesn’t know that their married and in love. Later on in act III Friar Laurence

As many know, the story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy. For the few who haven’t heard of this story, two young characters meet, fall in love, become heartbroken, and result in death. Readers believe that they were star-crossed lovers. The tragic outcome of Romeo and Juliet was the result of their own ridiculous decisions, as for many who believe was written in the stars.

Shakespeare manifests the final scene of Romeo and Juliet to illustrate how love triumphs over the terror of death and depicts how the Capulet and Montague parents’ mutual love for their children dismisses the ancient feud. The protagonists, Romeo and Juliet’s preference of being killed rather than “death be prorogued, wanting thy love” (Page 91; Act 2, Scene 2), indicates they would rather die than death be delayed without the fulfilment of each other’s love. Romeo commits suicide as he is unaware that Juliet’s death is fiction, which results in Juliet finding his corpse when she awakens and stabs herself as they both do not wish to live with the absence of each other’s love. Again, Shakespeare portrays that love conquers the most feared prospect of life:

Does Romeo and Juliet always have to end in such a tragic way? Romeo and Juliet is a story about Romeo, who in grief of his last love, falls in love with the beautiful Juliet from the house of his family’s enemy. Romeo and Juliet have to stay strong to keep their love from causing chaos in the city of Verona. At the end of the story many people have died including Romeo and Juliet. But with a little bit of imagination the story could end in a whole different mood. In a different reality, Romeo and Juliet can have a somewhat happy ending.

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."William Shakespeare. The genre of the play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy and it is written by William Shakespeare. The reason this play is a tragedy is because during the whole play there was always a problem that occurred weather it was in the beginning middle or end of the play. The story has two main characters that fall in love but, the problem is their families hate each other and they have to hide their love for each other. These two characters are named Romeo and Juliet also the title of the play. Romeo is a Montague and they are the rival family of the Capulets, the girl Romeo is in love with(Juliet)is a Capulet. Romeo and Juliet met at a party the capulets where throwing a party that Romeo and a couple of other Montagues went to so they could go out and have a fun night because Romeo had been heartbroken about a girl who doesn't love him back. As soon as the Montegues get to the party Romeo see Juliet and they start to flirt and at first Romeo didn't know Juliet was a Capulet but then he saw her mother lady Capulet and soon they both found out that their families where rivals.

Early on Romeo himself foresaw his fate before meeting his love. Though Romeo was unsure of his exact end, on several occasions he questions his fate and how it will affect him. Before Romeo entered the party of his family’s sworn enemy and his soon to be lover, he is heard questioning the stars, “I fear, too early: for my mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night’s revels and expire the term/ Of a despised life closed in my breast/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death” (I, iv, 113-8).

Targoff states that Shakespeare, “intensifies the already powerful sense in the play that love has no meaningful posthumous future” (33). More exactly, when the lovers die there is no exchange of prayers or promises to meet again in the afterlife. In fact, Targoff argues that in this moment “Juliet longs for death itself,” (33) and that her last words are not a romantic stream of conscious confessions to her deceased love, but rather to the knife that will end her

From the outset of the production Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare warned the readers that Romeo and Juliet would eventually marry and die by means of suicide. Consequently, the readers knew all events and actions of the protagonists, antagonists and secondary characters led to one thing: The death of the star-crossed lovers. To the misunderstanding of some, Shakespeare could have simply done so to assist the uneducated Londoners, but others, including myself, believe he used the prologue to imply that one cannot decide their own fate. To substantiate Shakespeare’s effort to show how one cannot determine their own fate, he uses the prologue, the Prince’s decisions, and the pre-party as reinforcements.

In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, fate leads two star-crossed lovers to a tragic ending. Fate, in this play, is that Romeo meets Juliet at the ball and their death because of their parents, the Capulets and the Montagues, who can never stop fighting. It is truly fate when these two hopeless romantics meet at a ball that the Capulet family hosts. Young Romeo is in love with a girl named Rosaline, or so he thinks. After seeing Juliet at the ball, he instantly falls in love with Juliet. Later in the play, he expresses his love for Juliet, “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the East and Juliet is the sun” (2. 2. 2-3). Romeo explains his feelings for Juliet shows that he has clearly gotten

Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy in lies in their love because that their families have a vendetta going on, meaning that they could not be together unless they were together in secrecy. Whereas, for the Dr. Booker’s plot guide, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet would be Voyage and Return considering that both of them end up sacrificing themselves for each other. Near the end of the play and movie Romeo and a few others end up getting into a fight with Tybalt. This is where Romeo starts spiraling out of control, later that night Romeo ends Tybalt’s life. As a result of Romeo’s actions he had made matters worse because the grudge that the families between each other. Juliet took a drug that would make her seem dead for a few days, during this time Romeo

Romeo and Juliet's fates were not wholly predetermined, but rather a series of unfortunate and unlucky events. It's hard to escape Shakespeare's opening words, telling the audience that the two were destined to die. Their families' long-standing feud would have been an obstacle difficult for even the most devoted lovers to overcome.