Romeo and Juliet as a tragedy by Shakespeare"Romeo and Juliet" is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. The play focuses on romantic love, particularly the intense passion that arises at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. The play covers a very short time span of three days, in which Romeo and Juliet meet, fall in love, get married and die. The "tale of... woe" is inevitable from the moment the Prologue addresses the audience from the stage. At the beginning of the second scene of the second act Romeo, after meeting Juliet at the ball, finds himself in Capulet's orchard and sees Juliet at the window. He compares her to the sun: "Rise, beautiful sun, and kill the envious moon." She speaks, not knowing he is there, and expresses her love for him, "only be sworn love, and I will be a Capulet no more." Over the course of the show, the young lovers are pushed to challenge their entire social world. . An example of this appears in this scene with their families' defiance: "Deny thy father and refuse thy name," Juliet proclaims, "Or if thou wilt not, swear to me only love, and I will no longer be a Capulet." an example of this is when Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio at the end of the previous scene to go to the Capulet garden. Romeo also challenges his sovereign when he returns to Verona for Juliet's sake after being exiled by the prince under pain of death in the first scene of the third act. After hearing Juliet's declaration, Romeo steps out of the shadows and declares his love for her. He will do anything for his love. Juliet fears that his family will find out and harm him. She asks him to promise his love to her again. Sh... middle of paper... would allow their love to live on. This irony exists and it is tragic. But because of the power and beauty of their love, it is difficult to see the deaths of Romeo and Juliet as a simple tragedy. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet are tragic, but this tragedy was destined: by the stars, by the violent world they live in, by the game, and by their very nature. We, as the public, want this death, this tragedy. At the end of the play, we don't feel sad for the loss of life so much as we feel heartbroken by the incredible act of love that Romeo and Juliet committed as a monument to each other and their love. Romeo and Juliet have been immortalized as the epitome of true love, not because their tragic deaths bury their parents' conflict, but rather because they are willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for their love..