Discuss how far you feel that Shakespeare presents the play Romeo and Juliet as a dramatic tragedy based upon the themes of loves and hate.

thrice disturbed the quiet of out streets” this indicates that there has been three street fights between the family’s before because of the hatred rivalry. It becomes clear to the audience the two families dislike one another and themes of fate and hate become apparent.        Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father decides to have a party so that young Juliet can meet Paris, a quite wealthy well-known person, and hopefully likes him enough for Juliet to agree to marry him. Although this does not go as planned. Juliet doesn’t fall for Paris but to a young Montague called Romeo instead. They fall in love almost instantly and later that evening on Juliet’s balcony they exchange vows and rush into planning they’re marriage for the next day. They waste no time and with the help of father Lawrence and Juliet’s nurse they marry despite their families ancient hatred. It is commitment to one another the audience sees that not only has their fate played a part in their lives but also they truly love each other.        Tybalt finds Mercutio (Romeos best friend) and Benvolio in the street and informs them that he wants a fight with Romeo because he was at Capulet’s party. Romeo then arrives but refuses to fight as he has just married Juliet. Their families have now joined: both a contemporary audience and Elizabethan audience would sympathise with Romeo as they came to realise Romeo truly loves Juliet is moralistic and committed. Romeo says, “I do protest I never injured thee but love thee better than thou canst devise” this means that Romeo says he loves Tybalt more than he realises. Tybalt thinks that Romeo is insulting him and attacks Romeo but Mercutio steps in to fight on his behalf but is killed by Tybalt and before his death proclaims “A plague a’both your houses!” which highlights that Mercutio blames both families for his death, the word “plague” means to smite with a plague, pestilence or death in any case meaning evil or badness upon them. As an audience we therefore realise that fate has again been tarnished, thus we sympathise with them. Romeo then becomes over come with rage even though Tybalt is his new cousin he kills him for killing his best friend. This demonstrating how he felt about Mercutio. The prince of Verona then arrives and his decision is to unfairly banish Romeo from Verona, and thus from Juliet. Unfair because Romeo is taking all the punishment not only for him killing Tybalt but for Tybalt killing Mercutio, surely this should cancel each other out and since Mercutio is related to the prince you would have thought he would be lenient. It is through all this sympathy for Juliet grows stronger as other peoples actions cause her upset and unhappiness.        Distraught by the prince’s decision and the fact he must leave Juliet he spends one more night with her before he has to leave Verona the next morning. Shakespeare shows the commitment of the lovers at the start of the scene by the dialog used between the two lovers Juliet tries to convince that it is not morning so that he does not have to leave her. “It is not yet near day” and it attempts to tell him that all the bad events that have recently happened to him have all been a nightmare, “it was a nightmare” she tries and tries to keep him with her but in the end he must leave her or face death.In conclusion Shakespeare presents the play Romeo and Juliet as a dramatic tragedy by using the themes of hate and fate. Hate being the two families feud, but in the end fate overcomes the hate and joins the Montague’s and the Capulet’s as they have created this fate for their children Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.