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provide act scene line(s)


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provide act scene line(s)

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare expands traditional notions of tragedy. He includes comic elements and gives the play a domestic setting.

Romeo and Juliet are not the conventional characters of tragedy: kings or mighty warriors. They are young, innocent and powerless. But in the portrayal of how their passion and vitality is needlessly destroyed, the play conveys the sense of loss and waste that is at the heart of all tragedy.

The entire play is cast as a tragedy, so one could argue that the entire thing was an example of tragedy. But if you needed to be more specific you could quote the moment when Juliet wakes to find that Romeo has commited suicide while she was sleeping.
That perhaps is the hight of tragedy as we realise that both must die, and in doing so it is the only way that they will ever truley be together.

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