Which end is more dramatic and tragic for my story?

Question

I'm writing a tragic short story and i want to give it a tragic end.
I'm thinking in 3 options:

-End the story with the double suicide of the two lovers that are protagonist. (how should them finish their lives?)

- End with the public execution of both, that the to lovers die together in the scaffold (and what method hanging burning or beheading?)

- With both lovers separated forever, she locked in a convent and he in the galleys forever.

What do you think? which final is more dramatic and tragic?,What's worse of this things? and what is more romantic?

and Why do you think that?

Answer 1

i'd like to say the first one but its too romeo and juliet..
so i'd go for the second one... burning together side by side holding each others hand...

Answer 2

1) Double suicide: please don't do it. As one of the answerers said, it's too similar to Romeo and Juliet.
2) Public execution: it's too brutal to make anything romantic out of it.
3) Lovers burning together: now that would actually be a good idea. You can even compare the flames of the fire that's ripping their flesh off to the flames of the love they're feeling inside.
Also, it would be a VERY ironic ending. Because those lovers were probably "burning" with passion throughout the whole story, right?
4) Separated forever: separating them forever isn't enough... they would both have to lead terrible lives afterwards. I can imagine him in the galleys, cleaning floors or having some kind of demeaning job, and somehow, he's moving further and further away from her, in the sea, in the middle of nowhere.
And her, if she's locked in a convent, i imagine her being some kind of a nun, who lives a life in fear. Because, night after night, the minister locks her in his room, and rapes her.

I'm just giving some examples in this last part, you don't have to take them into consideration, but it was just to give you an idea.

Answer 3

It really depends on your characters. Are they the kind of people who would kill themselves? Or are they more likely to fight to the bitter end? Suicide pacts rarely evoke sympathy in the reader and therefore are not tragic. (Romeo & Juliet only committed suicide because they thought the other had)

Having them killed off could be tragic but leaves no room for a sequel.

The third option has the most promise. You can build tension by letting the reader believe the lovers will die. Then have them rescued, only to be torn forever apart. You may even have them go into self-imposed exile with each believing the other is dead or sent away forever.

Answer 4

I even tend to end with hopeful. issues isn't in all probability an identical for the main properly known character after in spite of got here approximately, yet regardless of the reality that he or she is now broken, s/he has found out a element or 2 and could possibly use it to have an excellent existence, or a minimum of a greater effective one than earlier. staring on the form, there isn't something as disastrous as a death, or there is quite a few. i come across it intense compliment whilst a reader says he or she cried. BQ: (Your ending sounds extremely good, BTW.) My admired ending had a character settle for that his lover is deeply improper, love that person besides, and faux to have self assurance the myth that they might at some point flow to Italy even however he's conscious of it is going to by no potential ensue. BQ2: Hmm, good question. i assume it somewhat is the ending of the action novel Vertical Run, the place the character who spent the full novel evading and outsmarting people who had to kill him--for an extremely good reason, it seems--reveals the thank you to stay without threats to his wellbeing.

Answer 5

I like the last ending best as there are already many tragedies that end with the death of two lovers. Being apart for the rest of their lives opens two areas. It allows the readers to imagine what could happen, and it allows the writer, in this case, you, to create another story with a surprise ending. It's a good twist! Good luck on your story! Annie

Answer 6

I need to know the rest of the story, but either ways personally I do not really enjoy the suicides or executions. That looks like a desperate attempt to make it feel tragic.

Answer 7

I think Shakespeare, Dickens and Dumas would all like to have a little chit-chat with you about your potential tragic endings.

Be bold! Really apply yourself and think of something so original that it is breath taking in its uniqueness. You've managed to get this close to finishing a short story, don't fall back on the classical great writers for your ending.

Push even more to making the ending bring everything you've worked on so far together in a way that is distinctly yours as a writer.

Good luck. --Andy

Answer 8

None of them are very original and we'd need to read the start of the story to really have an opinion. They all feel like tragedy for tragedy's sake without us doing that. If I had to choose one it would be the last but only because the first two are mawkish. They are all a bit Mills and Boon though.

Answer 9

I like the public execution. Sounds like a good scene for that dramatic last embrace, kiss, and then the masks go down........ Hanging, or beheading depending on when/where its set.

Answer 10

As a great fan of drama and tragedy, I think you should definitely go with having them both publicly beheaded.