Romeo and Juliet is an excellent example of Shakespearean tragedy
April 7, 2002
Romeo and Juliet is an excellent example is a Shakespearean tragedy
I decided to write about Romeo and Juliet as great example of Shakespearean tragedy because I think that Shakespearean tragedy is most popular in whole world. Shakespearean tragedy lives 400 years and it will probably live much more.
After Shakespeare wrote his tragedies, it became standard for writing among world writers. That standard got name Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespeare was original and unpredicted. You never knew what is going to happen at the end of the book. Shakespeare’s heroes have a lot of same characteristics. His heroes tend to ennoble and glorify humanity or infect it and destroy it. They make free choices and they are free time after time to turn back. Center of an action that takes place in book involves many other characters, with each one contributing a point of view, enriching the context of the play. Knowledge through the suffering is powerfully dramatized in his plays. The flaw in the hero may be moral failing or even an excess of virtue. His tragedies maintain a balance one good and other evil or bad side. Many of us suddenly ask same question like, what is Shakespeare’s major tragic theme and method? Question is one, but answers are different. His plays are about love and usually about tragic love. They are full of emotions and changes from one side to another. In his plays pressure of surroundings usually lead to the conflict, which ends tragically. Every Shakespeare’s play deal with one basic need, need for love. I will try to show three arguments in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, that are going to support all I wrote about Shakespearean tragedy.
