Romeo And Juliet: Love And Hate-Comedy Or Tragedy?

Romeo and Juliet: Love and Hate-Comedy or Tragedy?

For a love story, Romeo and Juliet has more violence and bloodshed than most TV mini-

series. The play begins with a riot, ends with a double suicide, and in between has three murders.

And all this takes place in the span of four short days. Of course, when you're dealing with love

and passion, you're operating on an different level. The funny thing is that both of these terms

fall in the same category. It is common for love to turn to hate, in the blink of an eye.

Love and hate are two different things yet have so many things in common. They have a

doubleness. This contrast is shown throughout Romeo and Juliet "O brawling love, O loving

hate," Romeo cries in
The slightest wrong

move might be perceived as an affront, an insult, a challenge. Under the best circumstances,

communication between hostile forces is difficult; under conditions of extreme heat, conflict

becomes almost inevitable.

In addition to love and hate, there are results given in the story of tragedy. The story

takes place in about four days, but is Romeo and Juliet a tragedy or a comedy? The story can be

taken as a personal preference, but to me this story was intended to be a tragedy. Shakespeare

includes many witty puns and lines in his plays. Mercutio tells many hidden jokes, many being

sexual innuendoes. By seeing the play in Ashland on stage, it gave me a better feeling for the

play in what dramatic state it was portraying. Many times it put me on the edge of my seat

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during the tragic parts. Granted there are many funny parts in the acts, but it was intended for
Romeo and Juliet fell in love by chance; they could not help that their families were

feuding. Cruel actions of fate helped to determine the conclusion of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo's tragic flaw of impulsiveness is a key part of the story. If he had not been so

hasty in falling out of love with Rosaline and into love with Juliet, the story would not have

happened at all. When he decided to marry Juliet after knowing her for less than a day, Romeo

acted foolishly. He killed Tybalt when he didn't think through and control his feelings. At the

conclusion of the story, Romeo took his own life because he thought that his beloved was dead.

Most of the disasters that took place in the story would not have happened if it weren't for

Romeo's reckless decisions.

Death is another crucial element of a well-written tragedy. Tybalt got into a brawl with

Mercutio and killed him, which infuriated Romeo to the point that he revenged his friend's

fatality by murdering Tybalt. After Romeo discovered that his precious Juliet had been killed, he

rushed to her tomb and killed Paris when he found him there. Romeo went into Juliet's grave