ROMEO AND JULIET AS A TRAGEDY

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Term Paper Title	ROMEO AND JULIET AS A TRAGEDY
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ROMEO AND JULIET AS A TRAGEDY
     Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is his eleventh play.  It is with no doubt a tragedy.
Shakespeare has included all the necessary elements for a tragedy.  The play has a tragic hero
of high standing who dies.  The hero opposes some conflicting force.  The hero has a tragic
flaw and this flaw will lead to his downfall and the downfall of others.  Good is always
wasted driving out evil.  Indeed, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.
     In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the tragic hero.  He is the only son of the Montague
family, therefor he is of high standing and very wealthy.  He is so well respected that even
Capulet, His family’s sworn enemy praises him:
          …let him alone,,
     He bears him like a portly gentlemen;
     And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
     To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth.
     I would not for the wealth of all this town
          Here in my house do him disparagement…(I.IV.65-70)

This means that among the people of Verona, Romeo is very well respected, and he would
not do any harm to Romeo at that time.  Romeo is the hero in this story.  Romeo must die
along with Juliet in order to stop the families’ feud.
     The conflicting force which Romeo opposes is the fact that he is a Montague that is in
love with a Capulet; his family’s sworn enemy.  The Montagues and the Capulets have been
feuding for many years. Romeo is a Montague and he is born into the feud.  He does not like
it and he feels that it is a waste.  Romeo has to disobey  his family so he can be with Juliet.
     In this play, Romeo’s tragic flaw is that he is always melancholy, miserable, and
downcast, and Romeo is always in love, and when he falls in love, he falls hard.  Romeo is
depressed over Rosaline.  Romeo is very disheartened over her and it seems he has been like
this for some time already.   Montague tells us this when he says Romeo “…Shuts up his
windows, locks fair daylight out, / And makes himself an artificial night...”(I. I. 135-137).
Romeo has a major problem.  Even after he meets Juliet, he is very sad because he  discovers
that she is a Capulet.  Shortly after, he is banished from Verona and is very downcast once
again over the fact that he will not be able is see Juliet again.  Romeo is so extremely in love
that he says that instead of being banished, he would rather be dead.  When Friar Laurence
gives ...

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