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Romeo and Juliet: Romeo - A Tragic Hero
Shakespeare is a well known author who wrote in the 1500's. Many of his
plays are classified as tragedies. According to the Oxford dictionary of
current English, a tragedy is described as a serious disaster or a sad event.
In Shakespeare plays, tragedy is identified as a story that ends unhappily due
to the fall of the protagonist, which is the tragic hero. Fo ....
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.... Capulet in Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 65-66. This quote illustrates that even
Romeo's enemies know well of him and know that he is respected and talked about
by the citizens of Verona. Usually when a character is introduced as being
noble, the audience is aware that in the end of the play, the character will
have a tragic fall.
Another necessary quality possessed by a tragic hero is the hero's
tragic flaw, which in Romeo's case is falling in love too quickly and deeply. "
To seek a tragi ....
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