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Romeo and Juliet: Tragedy, Love Story or Both?

Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is the tale of two lovers who take
their lives for each other when their love is hindered by their feuding parents.
After reading Romeo and Juliet, apparently a tragedy, I would say that this
story contains aspects of both a love story and a tragedy. The tale of two
teenagers who fall in love at first sight and then marry, become true lovers and
then risk it all for their love cannot surely be all tragedy. However, it is a
tragedy, and has been called that for decades.

I will discuss with you what makes this story a tragedy, and then what makes it
a love story.

To begin, the family Montague and the family Capulet had been locked in a feud
for years, even so that their servants fought on the street. This is the tragedy
that sets off the train of other misfortunes, and if these conflicts were
resolved, none of the further things I am about to mention would have happened.

The tragedy of Romeo's......

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