Tragedy In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet shows how the story of true love can break the ancient grudge between two families. The conflict in the story is Capulets against Montagues. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (1.Prologue.1-4). The grudge between the two families led to fighting and even death.

The ideology that everything in the universe has a specific place and rank in order of their hierarchy importance created by God is known as the concept of The Great Chain of Being. The order of this concept consisted levels according to highest rank to the lowest accordingly: God, angels, humanity, animals, vegetation life, leading all the way down to crud. Within each category, more specific classification existed, placing these subcategories in a specific order. This concept was believed to be a way to keep the universe in order. As this was believed during Elizabethan times, William Shakespeare also believed in the Great Chain of Being, as many of his plays are prominently based on this concept. Some of his plays include characters that accept their place on the Chain, but others are not so complacent. By examining three different characters from Shakespeare’s tragedies, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Tragedy of King Lear, it is obvious to readers who is content with their place on the Chain and which characters have a difficult time accepting their place. Romeo and Juliet do not obey their parents’ orders, therefore suffer harsh consequences towards the end of the play. Macbeth is another Shakespearean character that violates the Chain, due to the committing of several murders, in order to gain the throne. In stark contrast, Cordelia, is content with her place on the Chain as she does not want anything greater in life, unlike her

“Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare, is a play about two star-crossed lovers whose love ended due to a tragic series of mischances and fateful errors despite the hatred between each others families. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two young people who fall into a forbidden love. After going through many hardships, they realize that being together, is the most important thing. They both decide, in the end, that being together dead is better than being separated alive, therefore they die for each other. Shakespeare’s theme of hate is a senseless action that always causes more harm than good is shown by characterizing the family feud between Capulets and Montagues as responsible for Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths.

King Solomon of Israel once said, "A prudent man sees evil and hides himself, the naive proceed and pay the penalty" ("10 Biblical Principles For Making Wise Decisions"). As Solomon suggests, people who practice sensibleness do not expose themselves to negative situations by using reason and caution. However, when children show naiveness, they irrationally follow whomever they trust, resulting in impetuous choices and retribution. In Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets ' selfishness and rage, Nurse 's passiveness and moral abandonment, and Friar Lawrence 's hastiness and insensitivity causes Romeo and Juliet 's alienation and desperation, showing the link between a lack of sensible guidance and rash decisions.

To avoid her arranged marriage with Count Paris, Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion to help her fake her death. By drinking the potion, it is supposed to make her sleep for 42 hours, which is enough time for Romeo to come back to Verona from Mantua. Romeo never perceives this plan, as he thinks Juliet is actually dead. Romeo then kills himself by drinking a deadly potion. When Juliet wakes up and sees that Romeo is dead, she says, “ What’s here? A cup closed in my true love’s

A “tragedy” refers to a piece of literature which constantly proceeds towards a sorrowful ending due to the conflicts among different characters. The death of a hero or heroine is often the tragic ending of a tragedy, as well as other deaths generally caused by the hero or heroine. Tragedy endings often include separation, loss, sadness, and death (McDonald 157). Shakespeare tends to emphasize the importance of each individual’s death in his tragedies. However, these deaths are caused by the people in the play rather than forces of fate (Carlin 151). The actual “tragic” element in tragedies comes from the characters’ decisions–which are not influenced by fate. Examples of Shakespeare’s tragedies caused by human caprice include The Tragedy

The play Romeo and Juliet has been debated to be a love story or a tragedy Juliet is one of the main characters in Romeo and Juliet. She is the daughter of Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet. Juliet could be described as impatient, pretty, and not that smart.

As Anais Nin said, “You don’t find love, it finds you. Its got a little bit to do with destiny, fate and what’s written in the stars.” Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a romantic tragedy that demonstrates the theme of fate and mischance is constantly portrayed all throughout as the play goes on. In the Carlei version of the play and in The Notebook the theme of romantic love and destiny is constantly portrayed and associated with fate and mischance, since their fate is already laid out to be the way it is. When characters attempt to change it, the outcome will end up the same as if they never tried. This was will be proven by both pairs of parents were trying to force their daughters to marry someone else other than their love interest, since they weren’t meant to be because the fit of their family 's status in society, and lastly the inevitable deaths of all four lovers.

In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare there are many occurrences that lead to tragic events. Many people caused or had a part in the tragedy in this play. One example is, Mercutio cursed the two houses before he died and the result was Friar John never sent Romeo the letter with the plan of faking Juliet’s death. These tragedies help shape the plot of the play. One tragic event will start a chain reaction that will lead to another tragic event.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story with great haste that ruins the lives of the young lovers. The main characters are young, immature, and inexperienced. Haste is deeply involved with the story and the ending. There are four main contributions to haste. Romeo is hooked on Juliet wanting to marry her very quickly, Romeo kills Tybalt, Capulet marries Juliet to Paris, and Romeo kills himself leading to a series of misfortunate events.

When Romeo and Juliet, teenagers of rivaling families, fall in love with each other on a mysterious night, they have to hide their relationship from everyone they know or there’d be terrible consequences. In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet meet a depressing fate as they both end up committing suicide over what started as a rumor. Both Romeo’s and Juliet’s personalities play crucial roles in their ultimate destiny.

Romeo arrives at the tomb and kills himself, only for Juliet to wake up minutes later. Friar Laurence and Balthasar rush in to whisk the lovers to a safer location. Juliet refuses to leave with them, and Friar Laurence and Balthasar are forced to leave after they hear shouting nearby. Distraught, Juliet kills herself with Romeo’s dagger. Romeo says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight” (5.1.37). However, none of this is Romeo’s fault because Friar Laurence failed take responsibility and send the letter to Romeo himself or at the very least send Balthasar. As a result, Romeo was acting based on what he thought the situation was. Romeo believes the only way he can reunite with Juliet is in heaven. There are always two sides to a situation, and one should wait before acting. In this case, Friar Laurence’s irresponsibility and impulsiveness failed the

Two ‘star-crossed lovers’, Romeo and Juliet, have to be deceitful and lie to make their love last, but this eventually leads to their unfortunate deaths. This is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1594. Romeo and Juliet have to deceive is not the only cause of their deaths. Their social situation, poor guidance and advice from their loved ones and the ill fate and misfortune that follows them throughout the play also contributes to their fatal ends.

is one of the most famous tragic love plays of Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet took place in Verona. The main character Romeo is a member of Montague family and Juliet is a member of Capulet family, however, these two families are huge enemy. “You are as glorious as an angel tonight. You shine above me, like a winged messenger from heaven who makes mortal men fall on their backs to up at the sky, watching the angel walking on the clouds and sailing on the air.” Said Romeo. (Shakespeare, page 81) “The only man I love is the son of the only man I hate!” Juliet said. (Shakespeare, page 71) They fell in love with each at the first sight. As a couple, Romeo and Juliet are loyal and steadfast to their love. At the beginning, they got marry secretly, so that they think they can bring peace to each family, but it did not work. In order to get happiness and love, they did not care about their families, and reality. In the end, they all died for love. Love can over come everything.

The most famous love/tragedy story of all time is most likely the story of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are two characters written by William Shakespeare who are pulled through a tragedy that ultimately unites their families in the end. Because of the feud their forbidden love is kept a secret. Many people love the timeless tale of the great tragedy and often romanticise it to make it more like a love story. Because of this many people see love like Romeo and Juliet’s, secret, forbidden, and passionate, and want something just like it. I disagree, I think that that kind of would never work in the real world.