As important as harmartia, reversal and recognition allow for a complex plot, which is an intimidation of life. As Aristotle himself writes, “The most important of these is the arrangement of the incidents of the plot; for tragedy is not the portrayal of men, but of action, of life”. The story of Romeo and Juliet does not aim to tell of two lovers, it shows how the events of the story came to pass by showing the audience, not telling. The prologue essentially summarizes the whole story at the beginning of the play; “A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrows do with their death bury their parents' strife”. The opening lines of the play tell the audience exactly what is going to happen throughout the