Pearson Three Great Plays of Shakespeare for Class 7

In Romeo and Juliet we are shown two great families of Verona in Italy. The families have an unending quarrel and unending hatred. When Romeo of the Montague family and Juliet of the Capulet family fall in love, there is the making of tragedy. The personal tragedy of the two young lovers is directly caused by the social evil of the ancient family quarrel., which makes it impossible for their love to have a happy ending. The tragedy of Macbeth comes from the ambition of Lord and Lady Macbeth. This is the fault of their characters that produces the tragedy. The king in King Lear is too old. He is too old to see his foolishness of his own actions. Age makes him too weak-minded to understand the characters of his two old daughters and to see the goodness of his youngest daughter, Cordelia. His tragedy comes from his own weakness as much as from the wickedness of his ungrateful daughters.