Which factors, in your opinion, make Romeo and Juliet a Tragedy?

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Which factors, in your opinion, make Romeo and Juliet a Tragedy?

The play of Romeo and Juliet is a build up of tragedy by love and family grudge. The play is set in Verona in Italy. There are two powerful families the Capulets and the Montagues, which have grudge on each other. Romeo, from the Montague family and Juliet family from the Capulets, were bound by destiny but wouldn’t be together because of their families. Their love for one another would lead to death. Shakespeare shows there are many factors which are slowly build tension, which leads to the main tragedy of the death of the two main characters. The factors are, they had destiny on their side. Romeo overcame social conflict with Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt and timing played a key role in this play.

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As the reader can see Romeo and Juliet had destiny on their sides. They both were destined together. At the beginning of the play they destined for failure as they are from two warning families, even the servants from both of the family. “The quarrel is between our masters, and us their men.”(I,I,18-19). This quote shows that even the servants from both of the families fight for the name of the family. This will start with tragedy and then end in death. It will start with the servants and end with the main characters. Therefore Romeo and Juliet had ...

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