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HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES
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ASSIGNMENT ON English and American
Literature
Title: The tragedy of love in Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
Hanoi, 2009
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Part a: Introduction
Literature of the Renaissance in the 15
th
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th
century’s capitalist
relation began to develop in Europe. The former townspeople became the
bourgeoisie. There was a revival of interest in the ancient culture of Greece
and Rome. The study of the works of ancient philosophers, written, and
artists help the people to widen their outlook, to know the world and man’s
nature. The progressive ideology of the Renaissance was Humanism
.Human life, the happiness of people and the belief in man’s abilities
became the main subjects in file art and literature. In the 16
th
century,
capitalism began to develop in England as well as in other European

young boy. A play in that time was often commission by an acting
company, which could then sell it to a publisher at its own discretion
without further compensating the author. Shakespeare did not take part in
the process of publishing his own plays. On April 23, 1616, he died and
buried. He is the author of 2 poems, 37plays and 154 sonnets. His creative
work is usually divides into three periods. The drama The Merchant of
Venice and the two early tragedies Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar also
written in the 90s.
The American Heritage dictionary defines tragedy as “a dramatic or
literary work depicting protagonist engaged in a morally indicant struggle
ending in ruin or profound disappointment”. Tragedy engages our heart and
minds and helps us to understand our world. Tragedies make you thing
about the things that you have and cherish them. Romeo and Juliet by
William Shakespeare is on of his many respected tragedies, play is a youth
romantic novel, where love is defeated by hated, misunderstand, and time.
There are on a death run from the moment they meet reach other. There are
also some elements that foreshadow the fatality of the play final out come,
Romeo and Juliet is a love story. As many people in this world know, true
love knows no limits, and when two lovers become entirely entrapped with
their love, they become oblivions as to what in going on in the rest of their
lives. When Romeo and Juliet first meet, it seems that their falling in love
happens with the blink of an eye. Through out Romeo and Juliet,
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Shakespeare uses timing and the idea of revenge again two families to show
how two star-crossed lovers have a destiny with death. The social tragedy,
the family tragedy and their love_ all of them become love tragedy and they
made them victims of their own fate.


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