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romeo&juliet fits into the genre of tragedy because when romeo&juliet both die at the end, that is considered tragedy. tragedy is caused by 3 things: tragic flaw. [when one of the main characters has a flawed personality that leads to the tragedy.] hamartia. [when one of the main characters makes decisions which they cant see what is going to happen next.] fate. [self-explanitory.]
Shakespearean tragedy almost always ends in many deaths, much like the Shakespearean comedy almost always ends in a marriage. The ending of Romeo and Juliet ends with both of them committing suicide, and an epilogue mourning their loss and contemplating the situation which brought them there.
How do they not? They were young and in love but because their families hated each other, they couldn't be together. Since they were so in love, Juliet and Friar Lawrence came up with their little plan, but Romeo didn't get the memo, and killed himself, and when Juliet woke from her fake death, she saw Romeo dead and killed herself too.
The question is self-referential. Critics have, after reading Aristotle's Poetics, decided that tragedies ought to have "tragic heroes" who have "fatal flaws". It is a totally artificial concept which really doesn't have much to do with Shakespeare, who didn't know anything about Aristotle and didn't care. Nevertheless, generations of students have been set the task of scuttling about Shakespeare's tragedies looking for tragic heroes and fatal flaws and doing their best to shoehorn various characters into the definitions so as to make their teachers and professors happy. This is necessary, they are led to believe, because if they cannot find these things, the plays will no longer be tragic.
All of this comes from a misreading of Aristotle, who was trying to figure out why Sophocles's Oedipus was such a sad play. Aristotle was being descriptive, but all of these classical Aristotle-worshippers took him as prescriptive, so that they understood him to mean that any play which was not like Oedipus could not be a tragedy.
Let's face it, nobody is perfect. You can find flaws in anyone if you're really judgemental. And no matter how rotten someone's luck is, the more priggish among us will find a way to blame the unfortunate sufferer for his rotten luck. But that is not how tragedy works. We do not feel sad about what happens to Romeo because he is impetuous, or Othello because he is impetuous, or Hamlet because he isn't impetuous enough. We don't feel sad about Macbeth because he is ambitious or about Lear because he is not ambitious enough. We feel sad about these characters because bad things happen to them which are far worse than they deserve. Poor Romeo was trying his darndest to be nice to Tybalt. Othello was such a good guy but he got completely duped by Iago. Macbeth was a good guy at the start, but he got talked into making a big mistake. Hamlet got stuck with a visit from a ghost he didn't need or want.
Romeo and Juliet are tragic, not because they have flaws, but because they end up dead when they are a nice couple of kids who deserved to be happy with each other.
Yes because it is a tragedy that Romeo loses Juliet
Discussion for above: I wouldn't even say that. Both clearly think they lose each other, and in the end decide that neither can live without the other. But despite that, both find peace in death in each others arms.
It can be argued instead that the real tragedy is experienced by the audience, who if engaged enough in this fiction, will feel a deep sorrow for the blossoming love to fail so spectacularly.
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The term "rising action" is a term which only has application to a critical device called Freytag's Pyramid, in which it refers to the action in Act 2 of a typical five-act play, and by "typical" I here mean a Shakespearean Tragedy, since the Freytag Pyramid doesn't always fit the histories and comedies. Since the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet is not a five-act play (it is in fact a sonnet), the Freytag Pyramid and therefore the term "rising action" cannot apply to it. You could probably see that coming when you heard it was a prologue, since there is never any action of any kind in a Prologue (if there were, it would be an "Induction", as in The Taming of the Shrew).
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Who is the Hero's Sidekick Romeo and Juliet?
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