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Essay Archive - Romeo and Juliet: Romeo - A Tragic Hero
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. For a play to be a
tragedy, there must be a tragic hero. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is
the tragic hero. The theme of tragedy plays a great role in the play Romeo and
Juliet.....
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