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. how can you tell that romeo and juliet is a tragedy based on the plot and character information the prologue contains?

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First of all, think about what a tragedy is: a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal.

Keeping this definition in mind, most of the lines in the prologue alude to the fact that the play will be a tragedy. It talks about how civil blood will make civil hands unclean, how two star-crossed lovers will take their own lives, and how their deaths will end a long-term dispute between two respectable families.

In other words, there is foreshadowing of disaster and death just within the first fourteen lines of the play.
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