William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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Essay: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare is one of the
most popular love stories of all time. It is a story about "A pair of
star-crossed lovers", Romeo and Juliet. From the opening scenes of the
play these two children of feuding families were destined to fall in
love together and eventually die together. In the play Romeo and
Juliet's lives are based according to the stars, fate, chance and
coincidence. One of the oldest and most debated questions of all time
is whether our lives are governed by fate or by our personal choice. A
definition of fate would be a power that is believed to settle ahead
of time how things will happen. William Shakespeare, in Romeo and
Juliet, brings this question to the surface.
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who had numerous theories
on the idea of fate and tragedy in a play. He said that tragedy was to
be told "in a dramatic rather than narrative form, with incidents
arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these
emotions." Aristotle believed that in every tragedy, the protagonist
has a hamartia. A hamartia was a term used by Aristotle to describe
the character flaw that would cause the tragic end of an otherwise
noble hero. He also believed that in all tragedies, the spectator
would pity the protagonist, as they would be led to think that the
central character suffers more than they deserve to, during the play.
This was known as a catharsis. Aristotle also introduced the idea that
the protagonist has a 'hamartia', a defect in character that leads to
his eventual destruction.
the protagonist has a 'hamartia', a defect in character that leads to
his eventual destruction.
Is the tragic outcome of Romeo and...
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