1. Romeo fears that the evil outcomes ('black fate') of the violence lie in the future ('moe (more) days'). Some people argue that this is the point in the play where the tragedy really begins.

Go back to the beginning of the play, in the context of your reading of Act III and decide where you think the tragedy really begins. Is this play a tragedy from the very beginning, or does it become a tragedy as it progresses?

Write c. 750 words in your journal in answer to this question. Please be sure to include precise, relevant quotation from the text to support your answer.

(question drawn from Rex Gibson's writing prompts in the New Cambridge edition of Romeo and Juliet)

(image source: postcard from the home page of Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet)