Tragedy Of R&J Essay, Research Paper
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare?s most popular plays of all time, and also
one of the most tragic plays of all time. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when
their families prevent them from being together. They lived in a very complicated
society, where they couldn?t see each other or share their passion for each other. They
both had bad luck, by falling in love with a person that was your families? enemy.
Finally, they have so much love for each other that they are willing to kill themselves for
the other.
Romeo and Juliet lived in a strange and complicated society, where they are
punished for doing everything bad. There are a lot of reasons why they are victims of the
society; their families have been long time enemies, also how their biological parents
were never their for their problems, instead Friar Laurence and the Nurse were always
there for them. Unfortunately there families wouldn?t allow them to get married. They
got married secretly with the permission of the Friar, but not of their parents. That was all
caused because of their families? background with each other, and their parents not caring
about their decisions.
Well they both have bad luck throughout the story. There are a lot of scenes
where they have bad luck and where they are misfortunates. One very good example is,
when Romeo kills Tybalt for killing Mercutio. Mercutio and Tybalt talking trash to each
other caused all this, but when they started to fighting Romeo interfered and Mercutio got
killed. Everyone was laughing because they thought that Mercutio was joking around, but
when Mercutio told Romeo in his ear ?tomorrow you shall find me a grave man? he
realized that he had been killed. Romeo got mad and ran after Tybalt and started a fight,
but he also ended up killing Tybalt. For someone who was really a ?king of the pussy
cats,? you would never expect him to kill someone. But unbelievably he was banished
from Verona instead of being killed.
Through out the story they had some outrageously funny ways of showing their
passion for each other?s love. But the matter of the fact is that they were deeply in love.
In fact there were a lot of scenes where they shared their passion, they both fall in love by
the first sight at the Capulet party, also how they killed each other for the other. Its
unbelievable how someone could fall in love at the first sight, but Romeo fell in love on
the first sight and also got married after a couple of days. This all happened secretly, the
only person that actually knew any of this was the Friar and the Nurse. While Romeo was
banished from Verona Juliet was desperate to his face. Being the person that she was she
went to the Friar and got some sleeping medicine and faked her death so she could meet
Romeo again. While the message was on the way to Romeo he was already out of town
and on the way to see Juliet. He arrived, and he saw Juliet dead. He took some poison and
killed himself, right after Romeo killed himself Juliet woke up and killed herself. But at
the end of both of their deaths their parents had formed a treaty between the families.
Maybe now they think that it?s their entire fault that their kids killed each other.
Romeo and Juliet will never have a chance to spend the rest of their lives together
because of a few important factors. But the three things that actually caused them to kill
each other is, the society they lived in, their fate, last but not least the passion they had.
This a aspect that?s in everyone?s life and it can cause problems, or maybe it can bring
happiness. This story also shows how you can not only hurt yourself by suicide but also
the people you know.