Romeo and Juliet written over 40 years by the famous poet Shakespeare still relates to a modern audience today. This play based on two star crossed lovers whose families are in an ancient feud with each other. In my opinion, strongly believe that Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet is more of a tragedy than a love story. Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, rather than a love story because Multiple characters face violent deaths , Families are involved in an ancient feud that doesn’t end well, and Romeo and Juliet commit suicide at the end of the play. In most love stories there's a happily ever after, but many will say that it is indeed a tragedy than a love story. In the play the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet …show more content…
Even though to this day it is still unknown what caused the feud or when it started in the story, but thumb biting finds its way into it. Thumb biting is another way of flipping the bird which in general is an insult. In Act 1 Scene 1 servants from the Capulet and Montague household bite their thumbs at one another. This very thumb biting lead to a fight in the streets of Verona which shows that feud is a very serious thing and isn't something to play around with because the simplest of things can turn into something even bigger/ more. Due to the cause of the thumb biting it lead to a fight in the streets of Verona disturbing the peace and causing chaos may heim. The utter foolishness of both households and immaturity leads to the main idea that indeed it is a tragedy than a love …show more content…
The first person to die in the play was none other than Mercutio. In Act 3 it tells us how Tybalt and Mercutio drew their swords and began to fight in the Streets of Verona. Romeo best friends with Mercutio breaks them apart, but at that attempt Tybalt stabs Mercutio leading him to his fatal death. Once realizing Mercutio is dead Romeo then attacks and kills Tybalt out of Revenge for what he did to his beloved friend Mercutio which sadly faulted in his banishment. The deaths of these characters and even more which concludes that all this loss and violence still concludes my reason that the play is more of a tragedy than a