Romeo And Juliet Archetypes

The relationship between Romeo and Juliet is portrayed in the balcony scene as a confession of love for each other. However, their relationship is affected by many inner conflicts and things that are happening around them. Significantly, they must keep their relationship a secret because of the family feud between their names (Capulet and Montague). The family feud caused them to not tell their parents, and make the decision to give up their names for their love. Additionally, the Capulet family was planning to marry off Juliet to Paris only days after Romeo and Juliet met.
This makes us wonder how the feud began, and also how serious it really is. In the end, both Romeo and Juliet die, significantly because they tried to keep their relationship

Romeo is a Montague who falls in love very easily, and he speaks in a very loving and soft way. His habit of falling in love easily matches the archetype of being a hopeless romantic, Shakespeare portrays this archetype by having Romeo fall in love with Juliet at the party. Romeo went to the party in the first place to distract himself from Rosaline who he was deeply in love with just that morning - but due to being a hopeless romantic, he fell out of love quickly.
To illustrate, Romeo says: “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown,
But to rejoice in splendor of mine own." (I, II, 103-104). This shows that he wants to rejoice in his love for Rosaline at the

One of the elements of tragedy that Shakespeare uses is internal conflict. He portrays internal conflict during the balcony scene when Juliet shows her worry that Romeo’s family name could affect their relationship because of their family feud: “Tis but thy name that is my enemy.”(II.II.40). This quote shows how the family feud affects Juliet. Since she is worried that it will affect their relationship, she decides that she will give up her name if he does not so that the feud does not get in the way of their love. She tells the audience this by saying, “And I'll no longer be a Capulet.” (II.II.38-39). Another element of tragedy that Shakespeare uses is Hamartia. Hamartia portrays a character's flaws and uses them in a situation. In the balcony scene, he uses Romeo as a subject of hamartia: “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (II, II,144). In this quote, Juliet tells Romeo to tell the nurse what time they should meet if they are to get married, and although Romeo never intended to get married, he continued to tell the nurse and Friar Lawrence in later scenes that they are to get married. This situation shows Romeo’s fatal flaw of being a hopeless romantic. This is portrayed by Romeo agreeing to marry