Romeo And Juliet Tragic Hero Quotes

Romeo Montague, from Romeo and Juliet is the picture perfect tragic hero. Romeo portrays all of Aristotle’s traits of a tragic hero. Hamartia and hubris played a part in Romeo’s destruction. Romeo’s death was far from deserved. Throughout the play, Romeo’s actions and fate help build the platform of a tragic hero. Romeo’s hamartia is his inability to think. He constantly makes rash, unthoughtful decisions. It all begins with Rosaline. Rosaline and Romeo’s feelings are far from mutual. Romeo is in love, but she is not. Romeo is then depressed because of Rosaline’s lack of feelings.

Romeo declares that his heart belongs somewhere else. “If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:My lips, two blushing

He believed he could create his own fairytale, and fate could step back. This was far from reality. When Romeo pushed at fate, fate gave an even harder push. When Romeo kills Tybalt he expresses one of fate’s pushes by saying, “Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”(3.1.98) Fate dooms the couple from the very start. They are just too blinded by their infatuation to see it. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love.” (Prologue. 5-8) The lovers’ death was written before their lives together began. Romeo finally caught on when he received news of Juliet’s supposed death. “Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!” (5.1.24) Romeo believes he is outwitting fate by killing himself. Little does he know that this was fate’s plan all along. Romeo’s pride is too precious for him to be wrong. This is another factor that helped with his

It begins with the battle between Tybalt and Mercutio. Romeo had three general choices. He could choose peace, Juliet, or his family. Romeo starts to choose peace, but Mercutio is then injured by Tybalt. Romeo tries to defend Mercutio, and he chooses his family also. Both Mercutio and Tybalt are killed. Romeo’s choice has many repercussions. “Romeo can, though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo! Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!”(3.2.42-44) Juliet’s nurse, who helped with many of the pair’s sneaking around, turns her back on Romeo. The nurse urges Juliet to marry Paris. Juliet then loses her only supporter of her relationship with Romeo. She is forced to find support elsewhere. Friar Lawrence then gives Juliet his plan for her fake death. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distillèd liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse…”(4.1.96-99) A part of the plan is not completed though. Romeo never receives word from Friar John, and Balthasar gives him the news. “Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capulets' monument, and her immortal part with angels lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault…”(5.1.17-20) Romeo rushes to the Capulets’ tomb where he kills himself. Juliet wakes up only minutes later, and she finds her dear Romeo dead. She then kills herself with a dagger. Fate has done it’s