Romeo and Juliet a Tragic Love

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Romeo and Juliet, the tragic play by William Shakespeare, centers around the love story between Romeo, the young heir of the Montagues, and Juliet, the daughter of the house of Capulet. This story starts off with two opposing families of royalty, the Montagues and the Capulets. These families have a deep seeded hatred for one another that traces way back into their family’s history. Shakespeare takes his audience though a heart churning tale of two star crossed lovers. From the start Romeo and Juliet’s love seemed to be an uphill battle that they would never win even with help. The relationship of Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story of two star crossed lovers trying to find a way to love each other. The first point of tragedy is right in the prologue to act 1 where it states that Romeo and Juliet are already doomed, it is a catastrophe of unawareness “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,” (prologue act 1.5-6). Before the story even begins, before the characters are even established its already stated that two “star-crossed lovers take their life,”. Star crossed lovers are two people who love each other are doomed, the stars which are believed to tell one’s fate are crossed so they do not align therefore are not ment to be lovers. This is a catastrophe of unawareness because neither Romeo or Juliet know that they are star crossed, they think they can be together peacefully. Due to their unawareness they still believe it will all work out because they are in love “And what love can do, that dares love attempt./Therefore, thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” (Romeo. II.2.68-69) Here Romeo is saying that he is in love and a man in love can do anything, therefore his enemies or ... ... middle of paper ... ...too takes her life to be with Romeo her love in the afterlife because thats how strong their love was. Romeo and Juliet would rather have killed themselves than live in a world without each other. Concluding that the play by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is indeed tragic story about two star crossed lovers trying to find a way to love each other. In the tragic end the two did find a way to be together in the afterlife. From the start both battled the tragic feud between the two families the Montagues and the Capulets, and both struggled against fate and in the end both tragically lost their lives due to a miscommunication. This is in fact a tragic play of two star crossed lovers trying to be together and love each other, they succeed in a tragic way but now they are together at long last. Works Cited play write Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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