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Question 10 • Language Arts 9

Romeo and Juliet’s final fate in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet represents which element of Shakespearean tragedy?

Answer
A
an emotional release
B
an unlikely resolution
C
an unhappy ending
D
a spiritual awakening

Explanation

In a Shakespearean tragedy, the main characters’ downfall and deaths bring the story to an unhappy ending. Romeo and Juliet both die in Act V, scene iii, so their final fate represents an unhappy ending, not a resolution in which their conflict is happily settled.

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