Tragic plays are plays that in with an atrocious ending. In the well known play by William Shakespeare the main characters Romeo and Juliet wanted to be together and married, but their families were rivals. To add to the reason they couldn’t be together Romeo killed a member from the rival families and was banished from Verona. So they could not be together due to the rivalry and the banishment. Then due to miscommunication and a bad plan to get out of a marriage Romeo got news that Juliet was dead when she wasn’t and so long story short they both died together leading to their great demise. Which makes this a play a tragic play. There were three main characters who helped in Romeo and Juliet's passing, these characters were Lord Capulet, Balthasar, and Friar John. Lord Capulet helped in the death of Juliet. Lord Capulet yelled at Juliet and forced her to marry a man named Paris. Lord Capulet also threatened to disown Juliet if she did not marry Paris. “But, an you not wed, I’ll pardon you. Graze where you will, you will not house with me… An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.” Lord capulet pressured and forced Juliet into a marriage that she did not want and had no way out of. So that helped lead juliet to her demised ending. …show more content…
Friar John was supposed to deliver a crucial message to Romeo that said Juliet was not dead she was just in a deep sleep from a certain medicine. But Romeo did not get this information due to Friar John being quarantined from the plague. “Here in the city visiting the sick, and finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we were in a house where the infectious pestilence did reign...I could not send it here it is again.” So Friar John could not send the letter explaining that Juliet was not dead leading Romeo to being uninformed of the news. This later lead to great grief for Romeo and later