... the following essay by Susan Snyder, she speculates that the play of Romeo and Juliet, dubbed in its entirety a tragedy, begins in fact as a comedy. Never having considered this notion before, and now considering, it is very clear early on in the play that the characters speak and act in a lighthearted, humorous, manner. It isn't until these characters "fall" that the story of their love changes ... role in the tragedy than the comedy. Comedic plot is more fickle in its ultimate concluding results, while the events of a tragedy are irreversible, "they will never happen again, and one by...

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... an examination of the characters of Tybalt and Romeo, it becomes evident that hatred, love, and the fight for honor, proved to be the ultimate cause for their downfall. From the very beginning, Tybalt seemed to have a perfuse hatred for the members of the house of Montague. In act one of the play, Tybalt instigates a fight with Benvolio and the other members of the house of ... to the ultimate tragedy that befalls the lovers. Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and...

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... tone of pathos within the passage. Not only does Antigone commit suicide, but Haemon, "doomed, [and] desperate with himself", also takes his life by, "by leaning his full weight on the blade, / [and burying] it in his body halfway to the hilt" (lines1362-1364). Haemon's act of suicide depicts a gruesome image of him lunging the sword deeply into his body. The grotesque ... values, thus conveying the omnipresent tone of pathos within this passage. The pathetic tone within the tragedy, Antigone, leads to the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil laws. Th...

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