... could it have been avoided? Romeo and Juliet could not have avoided coming in contact with each other, they were brought together by uncontrollable circumstances. In Romeo and Juliet's time Verona (a city in Italy approximately 100 km west of Venice) was a fair sized city, and "bumping" into an acquaintance was ... father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, all slain, all dead. "Romeo is banished- "there is no end, no limit, measure, bound, in that word's death; no words can that woe sound."" Juliet's sorrow drives her to obtain a "knockout potion" from Friar Laurence. Without her really kno...

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... Juliet awakens to find her beloved lying next to her lifeless. Distort and ruffled she realizes that he's drunk the poison to be with her in death. Hoping to swallow some herself she kisses his lips but nothing happens. She then takes his dagger and stabs herself. The following day the ... decision begins to plot against both men to get his due. In the meantime Iago is planning, Othello falls in love with the beautiful Desdemona. Being so much in love they quickly decide to elope and get married. Returning to Venice Othello is informed that he has been requested to be posted to ... Cypru...

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... himself whether he should kill himself, or if it is "nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," (Hamlet III.i.57). Similarly, In Romeo and Juliet, fate is blamed the cause of trouble. After the death of Tybalt, Romeo exclaims that he is "fortune's fool!" (Romeo and Juliet, III.i.136). It is clear that these characters are primarily governed ... and Juliet, the two lovers commit suicide, and Macbeth ends with a decapitation. Aside from a depressing ending, these plays all end in a violent or self-destructive way. The death portrayed in Shakespearian tragedies only brin...

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