ROMEO AND JULIET - TRAGEDY, LOVE STORY OR BOTH? Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is the tale of two lovers who take their lives for each other when their love is hindered by their feuding parents. After reading Romeo and Juliet, apparently a tragedy, I would say that this story contains aspects of both a love story and a tragedy. The tale of two teenagers who fall in love at first sight and then marry, …showed first 75 words of 583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 583 total…sign of true love. To love each other enough that you would commit suicide just to be with them after death to me is the ultimate commitment. So there you go. I am sure you can see that the tragedies do dominate the aspects of the love story, but by no means does this mean that they are not there. The world may call it a tragedy, but I would say that it is both.