William Shakespeare is a renowned poet. One of his more well known stories is Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy of two star crossed lovers in fair Verona. This story follows the guidelines of an Elizabethan tragedy which has three components to it. It includes a catastrophe of the main character with the Elizabethan practice of death, the tragedy can’t just be an accident but by a flaw of the main character, and the hero must have a trait that outweighs their defects and interests the readers. For Romeo, his tendency to be quick to action forces him and the people around him to suffer. Juliet and her naivety also had negative results. These tendencies adheres to the characteristics of an Elizabethan tragedy. Throughout the play, a fatal tait that Romeo possesed was that he was always quick to act based on his emotions. When his close friend Mercutio was killed he wasted no time to come after Tybalt, …show more content…
Her immaturity and naivety severely affected her and the people close to her. Her love conquest towards Romeo was clearly just her being rebellious against her parent because she knew her parents wouldn’t approve because, “thy name is that is my enemy”(2.2.41). She was being set up with Paris and she was not interested in him at all and she happens to meet an attractive guy that is interested in her the same night. This was an opportunity that she couldn’t pass up. She was extremely immature after Romeo had killed Tybalt she stated, “My husband lives, That Tybalt would have slain, And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband”(3.2. 115-118). In this she is insinuating that she is picking a man that she had only met a few days previous over her family. This is a decision that if she was a little older and more mature then she would have realized that Romeo isn’t the person that she thought that she fell in love with. Despite all of this the readers still choose to be attracted to her with qualities like her