reading response to shakespeare's tragedy's (preferably macbeth and romeo&juliet)

      As you already know, in class we've been reading the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. Also, I've recently been reading the tragedy of Macbeth as well, so the passed couple of weeks have kind of been dominated by Shakespeare's most famous tragedy's. I've recently realized, I really enjoy tragedy's.
      So basically Macbeth is about this power hungry couple who kill people in order to get to the throne, like friends or people who have helped them ex... and by the end of the play the guilt eats them alive, making them go crazy which leads them to their own downfalls.
       Romeo and Juliet also ruin themselves when they're love becomes even more forbidden then it was, and they attempt to run runaway together, to escape. Sadly, just because of lack of communication, the elaborate plan Juliet and frier Lorence made that would allow Juliet to runaway with her Romeo failed epicly, when Romeo himself wasn't notified, and thought that the love of his life was actually dead. And, we know that this causes Juliet to kill herself, ending the passionate love that these two lovers shared.
       And its passion that inflicts the tragic endings of these plays, the strive for power and control, or the heat and the connection with another person that love brings. These characters, just like any other characters in a tragedy go to far. The strive and desire they need takes them way over bored, and kills them. Its almost like you can't keep living after becoming so alive. Or like, "living fast, and dying young."
        But what I noticed is that its not the tragedy at the end of the story that needs to be thought about, its what leads up to the climax. In Macbeth, the witches just give away the entire story, and in Romeo and Juliet theres an actual prologue that states the death of our two main characters. So even if your not familiar with these famous stories you know whats going to happen. I don't think a good tragedy should be suspenseful. In class when we read the prologue to Romeo and Juliet we talked about how it makes us "feel" for the characters, and its true. We feel sympathy, and we feel smarter as if we're let in on a secret, like we know more about their story then they do.
        I want to also focus on another aspect that I mentioned before. Because we know we're in a tragedy. If we can already infer that its the whole living large with passion theory, that killed these characters then, we have an entire play to let our minds wonder how this is going to happen. And even after reading these plays a million times our minds cant even help themselves we feel the need to unravel the story further. We want to know "what if" they had survived? What love could possibly be so passionate? What kind of people would strive and kanive for power at such an extent? What kinds of actions would characters have to do that would cause they're lives to end so harshly, what would they do to make the world around them want to destroy and eliminate them. Why do these people crave absolute control, or the need to be with someone?
        That is what I like about tragedy's.