Romeo And Juliette A Tragic Play Essay

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Romeo and Juliet A Tragic Play

It is known that in Shakespeare?s tragedies main characters

die in the end, and in his comedies people marry. Since Romeo and

Juliet are a tragedy, Romeo and Juliet are going to die in the end.

Some events have to lead to their deaths, and someone makes these

events happen. The person(s) who started it all and did something

that led to all the other events that caused the death of “a pair of

star-crossed lovers”. The Capulets and Montagues would be most

responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because if their

ancestors didn?t start the fighting, and they didn?t continue it,

nothing terrible would have happened.

The first lines of the book tell us about the hate and envy

between the two houses. Choir: “Two households, both alike in

dignity, From ancient grudge to new mutiny,”. The choir tells us

that the whole conflict started a long time ago with really little

things, and then grew into huge fights involving many people. No

leader of either household ever though about making peace, they

were all too busy to spoil everything for the rival family. Only after

the death of their children they realized how wrong they were.

Romeo and Juliet first meet each other at a party at the

Capulets? house. They fall in love with each other at the first sight

without knowing that they are from rival houses, and when they do

learn about it, it is too late. Juliet says: “My only love, sprung from

my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”.

Juliet realizes that it was a mistake to fall in love with Romeo,

because he is one of the people she should watch out for. He is her

first and only love, but he is an enemy of her family. Luckily for

Romeo, Juliet is smart, and such dumb thing as unreasonable hate

between their parents wouldn?t stop her from loving Romeo and

getting married with him. She is sorry that their families are

enemies, though, because everything would be much easier if they

weren?t. So this is the first time when the hate between Capulets

and Montagues becomes an obstacle to Romeo and Juliet?s

happiness.

Only after their children die, do the Montague and Capulet

come to their senses? The Prince accuses them of killing Romeo

and Juliet: ? . . . Capulet, Montague, See what a scourge is laid

upon your hate, That heavens finds means to kill your joys with

love!”. The Prince makes them see how wrong they were all the

time, that all because of their hate, because they couldn?t let their

children love each other, Romeo and Juliet died. After that,

Capulet and Montague make peace, and Montague even says that

he will make a gold statue of Juliet, but what is that going to do, it

is too late, nothing will bring their children back.

It is totally Capulets? and Montagues? fault that Romeo and

Juliet died. If they didn?t hate each other so much, they would let

their children marry, and they would be able to live happily ever

after. There was only one person that realized how unreasonable

the fighting was and even tried to stop it, and he was Benvolio.

Benvolio was a Montague, but the Capulets didn?t have a

peacemaker such as Benvolio. They only had Tybalt, whose only

goal was to destroy all the Montagues. Also we don?t really know

how Romeo and Juliet?s parents would have reacted if they had

known that their children love each other. Romeo and Juliet didn?t

even try to tell them about love between them because they were

afraid that their parents wouldn?t understand them, but maybe

they would. The problem is, we don?t know, because Capulet and

Montague learned about their children?s love when they were

already dead. It is still mostly Capulets? and Montagues? fault that

Romeo and Juliet died, but maybe it was just their fate to die.