Romeo And Juliet Research Paper

Is the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, either a comedy or a tragedy? As far as the subject matter is concerned, the whole topic of Shakespeare's love sonnets is to draw in the reader into believing the tensions of a growing "love", eventually leading to the two teenagers’ untimely deaths. The main significance of this topic is to discuss the reasons behind why Shakespeare gave two very different sides to the story of Romeo and Juliet. Several critics have given their opinion that "no one really knew his true intentions" as the original story wasn't his own writing to begin with. The original author of the story, Arthur Brooke, made a poem that was also based off a French translation of Romeo and Juliet created in Matteo Bandello's Novelle.

Everyone knows that in order to create a good love story, it needs to also involve an intriguing plot line or plot "twists" if the creator prefers it. However, in the critics’ point of view, they sense that Shakespeare uses several facts about the topic of love to illustrate how it can be a very complicated process in comparison to what Romeo and Juliet had to go through. Love itself is a burden to some people who are, "not experts in the field", and Shakespeare takes it very seriously in the entire play. This essay will be divided into several parts, where the topics I will cover over the body of my essay will be discussed. Part 1 lists the reasons behind why Romeo and Juliet is described as a comedic play, and Part 2 will discuss the reasons behind why Romeo and Juliet is described as a tragic

Comedies in Shakespeare plays specifically are, ironically, not plays with funny jokes or pure comic relief, but are plays that have a happy ending. So if we examine several other stories, such as fairy tales like Snow White, Cinderella, and etc. we notice that they all start out as the 3rd person story of several characters that are hoping to find harmony and happiness. Although a few of these fairy tales in their original ‘flesh’ were more dark than what you have been read as a child, in terms of comedies, most of these fairy tales actually do end with happy endings, leaving us reassured that there are many possible things in life. As we look at Romeo and Juliet, at least the first 3/4ths of the story, it is just like a fairy tale as well. Two people destined to be together to fulfill a life of prosperous existence, and happy trails. In this way, we are able to distinguish the play by Shakespeare as a