Romeo And Juliet Essay

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Running with one’s heart is seen as a satisfying and positive way to lead in life. However, not using one’s mind to dictate and think through one’s actions can cause great misfortune. Romeo Montague, the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, often uses his heart too much. Romeo is the tragic hero of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because his tragic flaw of being too emotional leads him to exacerbate the fortune of his relationships and to an unfortunate end.

The first tragic choice Romeo makes is by going to the Capulet party. Romeo’s tragic flaw of being driven by his love to see Rosaline brings him to the party. Mercutio and Romeo had been discussing going to the “Capulet’s / [manor to

After Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo feels little need to spare Tybalt anymore after that and decides that “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him, referring to Mercutio. (Act III, scene i, line 131) This choice now makes his relationship with Juliet incredibly difficult because Romeo is later “ exile[d by the prince]... hence”(Act III, scene i, line 189). Now that Romeo is exiled to Mantua, Juliet and Romeo feel morose as they can’t be together. Juliet’s father decides that Juliet should “Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn / The gallant, young, and noble gentleman / The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church (Act III, scene v, lines 113,-115) as it seems like it would make his daughter and family happy. And since Juliet is already married to Romeo in secret, this creates more conflict and a difficult situation to

Once Romeo hears of Juliet’s death and vows to join her in her grave. He goes out of his way to see an apothecary to sell him poison. He decides to go back to Verona and “lie with thee tonight”(Act V, scene i, line 34). After Romeo sees Juliet ‘dead’ he is so emotionally distraught and shaken that chooses to drink poison and kill himself and decides that “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. (Act V, scene ii, line 120) And when Juliet wakes up, she finds her husband, Romeo dead. She figures out how he killed himself and decides “this is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”(Act V, scene iii, line 170). This now shows the death of both Romeo & Juliet because Romeo is