Romeo and Juliet were not tragic – they were stupid.?

Question

hello i need help. i've got an assay to write and i wrote only 487 words and it has to be 600 i don't know what else to write i just need some ideals please help

Answer 1

Love is Stupid. Much as Romeo and Juliet many of us tend to fall into the same tragic pattern of over inflating the melodrama & conflict in our relationships and instead of just backing away from the relationship, letting things cool till some unnamed date, if ever, many people do stuoid things like offing themseves and/or their object or the desire, their true love. How much of this behavior have people learned from Shakespear's Romeo & Juliet and how much has been learned from the endless array of stories spun from Romeo & Juliet. What episode of CSOrderLawILegalMatlockEtc has not had star cross lover invoved in a 'stupid tragedy.'

That is all the word vomit I wish to expel on the topic.

I'd go with the pure comedy of Thirty PLUSSSSS Norma Shearer & Forty Something Leslie Howard playing teenage lovers while drunk sodden John Barrymore cavorts around an idealized MGM set... That was a scream see TCM....

Peace

Answer 2

Their actions were stupid. But being in love wasnt. They didnt think things through. But it doesnt make you stupid. If you really think they are stupid for not thinking things through, then here is an arguement.

Have you always thought things through?

I am not trying to be mean I am just saying that they were not stupid. Maybe the word you are looking for immature. They were "in love". I really dont know how Juliet knows what love is. She is only 13. But then again, you never know. She still loved him after she found out Romeo killed her favorite cousin. So, when I did this, I said that it ws tragic because people died. And that is sad. They had their whole lives ahead of themselves. I said that Friar Lawerence was not really thinking things through. He should have done the right thing and said something to the parents no matter how much Romeo or Juliet wouldnt want him too.

The whole suicide thing could have been prevented.
Did you like Romeo and Juliet. It is an amazing story because it is sad, funny and tragic. It is very dramatic. Oh well. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Just thought I might add the point that, although Romeo and Juliet were teenagers, most marriages in the Shakespeare's time were arranged marriages especially among the aristocracy. In evidence to this Juliet herself is promised/engaged to Count Paris following the death of her cousin Tybalt at the hands of Romeo with her father threatening to banish her from the family if she didn't.

Juliet was desperate to avoid the marriage to Count Paris but couldn't tell her father the she had already married Romeo and so, with the aid of the priest, came up with a plan that would save her from the marriage and put her in a place where Romeo would be able to come for her despite his banishment.

I don't think they were stupid as much as desperate and misguided. The only reason it turns into a tragedy at the end is Romeo found out about Juliet's "death" before finding out about the plan.

Answer 4

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a story of the destruction of innocence and perfect love by pride and arrogance. They were not "stupid". The world around them was "stupid".
The feud between their families was what eventually destroyed them. Because of their futile, stupid and petty grudges and their pride and hatred, both the Montague and the Capulet families lost their most precious possessions - their children.
The love that Romeo and Juliet had for each other trancended the war that raged between their fathers and bridged what others saw as an unassailable chasm between these two families.
It is a tragedy because Romeo and Juliet were only able to be together and to express their love for each other in death. It is a tragedy because the families were not able to see the stupidity and futility of their feuding until their son and daughter had been killed by it.

Answer 5

You're writing that Romeo and Juliet were stupid? One could say that all tragedy is based on the actions of "stupid" people, since the tragic character is fatally flawed. But if that were true, people would not be attracted to tragedy. There is something else about tragedy that makes people want to watch it.

So, whether or not R&J is appealing to you, it has appealed for hundreds of years before you lived.

Now think about why that might be, and keep writing.

Answer 6

Hey, I'm also doing stuff on Romeo & Juliet at the moment. We are studying on Shakespearean Sonnets and we had to write out a scene of Romeo & Juliet. Maybe you can write something about Capulet & Lady Capulet wanting Juliet to marry Paris. But Juliet is already married to Romeo and write on how Capulet & Lady Capulet reacts to this argument. Hope this helps :)

Answer 7

Romeo & Juliet. Of Montegui & Capulet.
2 lovers Doomed - which History ner er forgets!

I've quoted it from memory, hope its more or less right? Forgive the spelling! Thats probaly wrong as well!

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Its not actual fact, its more a tale of faction, based on what is surmised to have taken place in the then walled city of Verona between 2 great families, the Montegu & Capulet.

Again not sure if I have the correct spelling, however I'm sure you'll correct it accordingly.

Verona at that time under the soverence of the Lombardies, also a point of contention and very much resented by the Veronians. The Lombardies bent on destroying both factions if they did not settle their differences by the use of their army if necessary. A very disquieting threat - for at the time the Lombardie Army was all powerful and would, in short measure, undeniably destroy them both!

Its still somewhat obscure as to the root cause of the Vendetta between the 2 families, however, it did exist and frequently led to fights in and around Verona, resulting in many deaths and injuries.

Mantova, a city not far distance, called upon many times to send what then stood as law enforcement officers, to broker peace, after the family fights were broken up by the Veronian Authorities, who were continually obliged to intercede to protect their citizens. The initial disputes in the markets, whenever the 2 families bumped into each other, invariably turning into fights - with many bystanders being either killed or wounded

I.e. the Montovians being acceptable to the warring families
as no one from either family had any connections with them. Whereas Verona's law enforcement was mistrusted by all and sundry.

Its the tragedy of the situation - 2 young ardent lovers - on the foothold of life and totally enraptured in each other, that, in all certainty - appealed to the Bard?

With his ability to write in endearing terms of tradegy that has survived the passage of time, and reflects in life today, its no small wonder he took up his pen and thus produced an immortal tale of love, its blindness, and its ability, in times of tragic grief and loss, to unite warring families

Answer 8

Romeo and Juliet may not be the best of Shakespeare's plays, but it's the most popular.
It's not only a love story, but a social comment on the fatal consequences of a family feud. If the two families had not been sworn enemies, R and J would not have had to meet in secret or hide in order to marry.
Their death was caused by their families, their hatreds and prohibitions.

Answer 9

In the classical sense of the word, R and J are nor tragic not are they tragic heroes. Romeo and Juliet is not even one of Shakespeare's Four Great tragedies (Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello). To be a true tragic hero, during Shakespeare's time and adhering to specifically laid down rules, a tragic hero had to fall from a position of high social standing -- Hamlet was a prince, Lear was a king, Othello was something of a mayor-lietenant in those Italian city-state days, and Macbeth rose through the ranks of nobility before falling. R and J are a couple of teenagers; maybe teenagers in the most affluent families in the town (we're not really sure; we're never told if Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie live in this town or the next town over, but it's possible that R and J are not even from the MOST affluent families in Verona).

You might spend a couple of words on the fact that they are not true tragic heroes in the classical definition of the word, and that their actions are not ... "stupid" ... most teenagers are stupid. Try softening it a little and call them "rash," "impetuous," "pathetic" (as in eliciting pathos from us) or you could claim that because they were "star-cross'd" they can't be tragic becaue a tragic hero has to fall from come personality flaw and not from Destiny being set against him

Answer 10

Actually tragic is the most appropriate.

Tragic that due to circumstances beyond their control they were not able to be together. that in itself is tragic.

Romance is never easy but when you through extenal factors in the mix that make love suffer due to complications then yes it is tragic.

Mutual suicide i never believe is the answer but you need to understand literature like all other art needs to tell a story, and the story needed closure in this case sad as it may be the outcome was death. It is the authors perogative to tell a story as they wish and with the outcomes as they so desire such is this case that it is a classic love story with tragic consequence.

Anyway hope this helps