Who Is Romeo And Juliet Tragic Hero

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story written by William Shakespeare in 1597 about a young couple who fall in love only to wind up dying for each other. The main characters, Romeo and Juliet are the children of two feuding families, Romeo belonging to the Montagues and Juliet belonging to the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet, in their own way, could be considered a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgement error that leads to his or her own personal destruction. Romeo and Juliet could not control their fate as forces were often beyond their control, particularly in their love story and people that got in the way of their relationship and caused most of their troubles. Forces surrounding Romeo Montague led to the downfall of his life. At the beginning of the book, Romeo was madly in love with a girl named Rosaline. Although she did not return his love and vowed to be a virgin, he still longed for her. In Act I scene 2, an illiterate man happens to walk up to Romeo and his close cousin, Benvolio. The man not read the
In Act III scene 1, Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, kills Romeo’s close friend Mercutio. Out of anger, Romeo kills Tybalt. These deaths led to the banishment of Romeo. Juliet was not there to watch, and she could not stop Romeo from murdering Tybalt. The people responsible for this force on Juliet were only Mercutio, Romeo, and Tybalt. In Act IV scene 3, Juliet fakes her death and Romeo comes to kill himself to be with Juliet forever, unknowing she was just in a deep sleep. Minutes after Romeo dies, Juliet awakens and sees her lover dead next to her. She takes Romeo’s dagger and kill herself out of tormented guilt of her lover’s passing. Juliet did not know Romeo would kill Tybalt and did not know he would kill himself upon finding her, she thought that he would receive the letter and wait for her to