Romeo and Juliet
WHY WAS ROMEO AND JULIETS LOVE WAS SO TRAGEDY
why was romeo and juliets love for eachother get messed up for
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Aslan
Well, they both killed themselves and were estranged from their families.
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jill d #170087
Is the story of Romeo and Juliet a tragedy? Of course it is. Young, innocent lovers die, through no fault of their own. But if it were not for the sombre Prologue, Romeo and Juliet would seem very much a comedy* until the unexpected, almost accidental death of Mercutio.
The play does not show the common pattern of tragedy, a person of high rank falling to death. Instead it shows the deaths of two protagonists, young and hasty, caught in a web only partly of their own making.
But Shakespeare himself was a young man, who possibly married in haste, and his play combines attributes of both classical and medieval tragedy. And much drama of the period deliberately combined conventions of comedy with those of tragedy.
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Of course it is. Young, innocent lovers die, through no fault of their own. But if it were not for the sombre Prologue, Romeo and Juliet would seem very much a comedy* until the unexpected, almost accidental death of Mercutio. The play does not show the common pattern of tragedy, a person of high rank falling to death. Instead it shows the deaths of two protagonists, young and hasty, caught in a web only partly of their own making. But Shakespeare himself was a young man, who possibly married in haste, and his play combines attributes of both classical and medieval tragedy. And much drama of the period deliberately combined conventions of comedy with those of tragedy.
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Aslan
I think, out of all Shakespeare's tragedies, R & J was the most preventable. I guess the flaws of impulsive young love combined with a nasty family feud and some really bad timing was a disaster waiting to happen.
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Aslan
I think, out of all Shakespeare's tragedies, R & J was the most preventable. I guess the flaws of impulsive young love combined with a nasty family feud and some really bad timing was a disaster waiting to happen.
