Romeo And Juliet: A Romantic Tragedy

Romeo and Juliet: A tragedy or not

Shakespeare’s most popular play he ever created was easily Romeo and Juliet. None of his other plays were as popular (and Tragic) as “Romeo and Juliet”. “Romeo and Juliet” is a romantic Tragedy set in the city of Verona, Italy. “Romeo and Juliet” is classified as Shakespeare’s greatest Tragedy influenced play he ever wrote. A Shakespearean Tragedy is a type of drama or play written by Shakespeare where the heightened climax always ends with a Catastrophic Ending. All Shakespeare and they always share the same common features. These features include: The fatal Flaw of the main character, usually leading to the ultimate downfall of him or her, and the external pressures that surround him, which include Fate,

Evil Spirits and manipulative side-Characters. Romeo and Juliet is renowned throughout the world for being a tragedy filled Story. Elements that Enforce tragedy upon it includes: Fate, Character Flaws and Great Sorrow.
Fate is defined as a force or power that predetermines the future or course of events for someone’s life. Fate describes the events of one’s life as fixed and the occurrences within it are inevitable and unavoidable. From the beginning of Romeo and Juliet fate is present and plays a key role in the storyline. Fate is seen as early as Act 1 Scene 2 when Lord Capulets illiterate servant is seeking someone who can read a list to him. At random, the servant asks Romeo and Benvolio for help reading; when Benvolio reads the list he sees it is an invitation to a ball that Benvolio insists on going to. This accidental meeting emphasises the presents of fate and how important it is. If Romeo was not aimlessly selected by Capulets servant he would not have gone to the ball to see Juliet and fallen in love with her.
Both Juliet and Romeo suffer character Flaws that helped lead to their downfall.

A character flaw is a limitation, imperfection; problem or deficiency seen in a character that otherwise may be very practical and well. A character Flaw could perhaps affect the characters Emotions and Abilities. Juliet’s distinguished character Flaws was her distinguished love for Romeo. Juliet is seen to commit everything to Romeo. For example, when Romeo dies Juliet is given the choice to live with or without Romeo, in the end she decided it is better to die than live without Romeo. If Juliet had not have fallen in love with Romeo at the ball, most of the Sadness and pain she felt would have gone away. Different to Juliet’s single character flaw, Romeo is noticed to have multiple character Flaws in his personality and emotions. Romeo is impulsive, which is his first character flaw. As with being impulsive, he also falls in and out of love too quickly. At the mere sight of Juliet he completely forgets about Rosaline and falls in love with Juliet, even before he talked to her. Evidence of Romeos character flaws can be noted in scenes such as: the balcony scene when Romeo is rash and impulsive as he professes his love to Juliet, the death of Tybalt also provides evidence for Romeo’s flaws as he let his emotions take hold of him and kills

Tybalt.
Great sorrow is defined as mental suffering caused by loss, disappointment or misfortune. Sadness and sorrow appears all throughout the story and even at the start of Romeo and Juliet sadness is clearly visible and easily seen. The biggest Example of great sorrow Within Romeo and Juliet is when both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves right next to each other.
After analysing Shakespearean Tragedy’s it can be seen that the Tragedy surrounding the love story between Romeo and Juliet is a real Shakespearean tragedy because not only is Romeo and Juliet affected by the death of each other but so are the families of Romeo and Juliet. The downfall of Romeo also accounts for the justification of Romeo and Juliet being a Shakespearean Tragedy.