Tragedy In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet was a play written during the Renaissance time period. The play is written by William Shakespeare and is about these two feuding families (the Capulets and the Montagues), whose kids meet at a party and instantly fall in love. This play is written as a tragedy and the tragedies are displayed in more ways than one. The main tragedies Shakespeare displays in this play are, the death of Romeo and Juliet, the number of deaths that occur for Romeo to be with Juliet, and the feudbetween Romeo and Juliet’s families. The main tragedy in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the death of Romeo and Juliet. This is a tragedy because all throughout the play everyone is cheering for Romeo and Juliet to get together, but when they finally get their moment, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so he kills himself. Then, Juliet wakes up sees Romeo dead, kills herself, so they do end up together, but only in heaven. Romeo and Juliet end up dying for each other in
This is a tragedy because the feud is what allows Romeo and Juliet not to be alive and married in the end of the play. The feud is also a tragedy because it is mainly what leads to the death of Romeo and Juliet. It leads to the death of these two because when Romeo kills Tybalt, he gets banished, causing this whole chain reaction of poor timing and communication, resulting in Romeo coming back to see Juliet, finding her “dead” in Scene 5. When he sees his significant other, assuming that she is dead, he takes the poison and kills himself. This all ties back into the feud because if Tybalt had not killed Mercutio for being a Montague at a Capulet party, then Romeo never would have killed Tybalt and everyone would still be alive. The feud is also a tragedy because it is what doesn’t allow Romeo and Juliet to be together in the first place, making it one of the main tragedies throughout the whole