Romeo and Juliete in Comparioson to Othello

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Romeo and Juliet and Othello Comparison

William Shakespeare was a writer who seemed to show feeling in many of his plays.  Whether the reader could tell or not in the two particular plays he showed many mixed feelings.  Feelings of love, death, grief, impulsiveness, pain and deceit.  

In the book Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows an extensive amount of imagery.  In the plays Othello and Romeo and Juliet there is light and dark imagery.  In Romeo and Juliet  there was a great deal of irony. In Othello there was a vast amount of dramatic irony. We knew some of the things that Romeo, Juliet, and Othello did not know.

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        A tragedy is defined as a dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character who is involved in historically or socially significant events.  The main character has a flow that will lead to his or her destruction.  The events in a tragic plot are set in motion by a decision that is often an error in judgment caused by a tragic flaw.  

        It seems that the tragic flaw of Othello and the tragic hero of Romeo and Juliet is Romeo.  These would be seen as the tragic heroes because they both have a tragic flaw.  Romeo’s tragic flaw is ...

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