Whenever a tragedy takes place‚ our human nature quickly inclines us to want to know the cause of the tragedy. Murders‚ terrorism‚ school shootings and many other tragic events all have one thing in common; a culprit who committed or contributed to these acts. It takes us time to figure out who the culprit is‚ but we are quick to blame anyone reasonably possible. This evolution of human nature has allowed for us to learn from our mistakes and direct our emotions towards a scapegoat. Either way‚ controversy
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Romeo and Juliet should be considered as a tragedy more than a romance or love story. In Romeo and Juliet‚ there is an ongoing argument whether or not the story is meant to be a love story/romance or a tragedy. In my opinion‚ the story should be referred to as a tragedy and I will tell you why. This story involves the hatred from both families going around and also‚ fighting more than love. First‚ the story reveals the two rival families and has already been started as a tragedy. “Three civil brawls
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bad decisions‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a catastrophic story of a death of young children. Everyone in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has an effect that lead to the young lovers death. With the Friar’s guilt-ridden advice‚ Romeo’s impulsiveness‚ and the dispute between the Capulets and Montagues‚ there’s many people you could potentially say did the most damage‚ so who should take credit for The Tragedy of two young lovers? Throughout the “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” there’s one specific
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Suicide is never the answer‚ but obviously it is for these folks! The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was very evidently based off of Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe. To us‚ reading Pyramus and Thisbe was comparable to reading a slightly altered summary of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare. The similarities were uncanny. Romeo and Juliet was just in the format of a play‚ and contained a bit more drama‚ as well as detail. It was more enjoyable reading Pyramus and Thisbe because there
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faulty of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet? Many chapters throughout the play had a part in the fate of the love birds.Friar has the most blame‚ but the Nurse could have changed just as much. Nurse Capulet knew about the marriage and went through with it even though she knew it wasn’t right. Likewise with the Friar. Friar Lawrence and the nurse‚ they both had options to change the fate but they didn’t. In this play the character Friar Lawrence is the many reason why Romeo and Juliet killed themselves
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Fate’s Role in Tragedy In works such as Jean Anouilh’s Antigone‚ William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ and Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet film‚ the idea of fate plays a huge role in the tragedy specifically when the characters feel as though they don’t have control in it. All 3 characters show somewhere in each piece that they feel as if they are a pawn to fate whether it is through them saying it directly or through a symbol such as water in Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation. This feeling is what
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Suicides is a leading cause of teen deaths and people know how serious it is. Yet in school people read about two star crossed lovers who kill themselves over love. Author William Shakespeare had wrote Romeo and Juliet as a play as well as many others. The main characters are‚ of course‚ Romeo Montague‚ Juliet Capulet‚ Tybalt Capulet‚ and Friar Lawrence. Romeo and Juliet weren’t supposed to be together but they didn’t care and one problem after another happened.
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people are to blame for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Some may say even fate is to blame for the unfortunate events that transcended in Shakespeare’s famous play. However‚ it is one of the main characters that is to blame. Loving and impulsive beloved Romeo is to blame. His impulsiveness is his character’s most fatal flaw‚ and it is what leads him to make decisions that result in not only his and Juliet’s deaths‚ but others as well. First‚ Romeo is so in love with Juliet the first day he meets her
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"A plague on both your houses. I am sped"(III.i.90). For as long as William Shakespeare’s play "Romeo and Juliet">Montague and Capulet families at the time of his death‚ his curse does no real harm. On the other hand‚ his actions before he is killed have a profound effect on those close to him and those effects ripple out to those even further away. Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend and not a member of either of the feuding families. An examination of Mercutio’s hatred for the sacrament of marriage
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Circumstance in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Throughout the world‚ “[t]here are...great challenges that ordinary [people] are forced by circumstance to meet” (Halsey). William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ effectively conveys how Romeo and Juliet meet their tragic fates. The actions of Friar Lawrence‚ members of the Capulet and Montague households‚ society’s demands‚ and fate create circumstances which ensnare Romeo and Juliet‚ who encounter a lamentable end. Romeo and Juliet are not responsible
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