17;s suffering is so intense he goes mad realizing his mistake was giving his kingdom to his spoiled daughters and casting out the one daughter that truly loved him. After Gloucester is blinded and finds out the truth about his two sons, he attempts and fails suicide. Both men misunderstanding their children, mistaking the good for the evil, and both suffering terribly for their misunderstanding. (Lamb 15) Even though most of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes are male, there are few exceptions. Romeo and Juliet is one of them, besides Romeo being the tragic hero, Juliet is a tragic heroine. This happens in Shakespeare’s “Love Tragedies” (Bradley 2) Does Romeo and Juliet fit the tragic hero curriculum? This play fits most of the tragic hero curriculum. They both come from high estate families, and you learn about them from the people around them such as Juliet’s nurse and Friar Lawrence. There are actions that lead up to the tragic deaths of Rome and Juliet but they are not by the actions of man. These two lovers did not bring their tragic death by there own actions. (Lewin 42)It was love at first sight between a very young Romeo and a very naive 13-year-old named Juliet. But their families would damn their love.“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown and know to late!Prodigious birth of love it is to meThat I must love a loathed enemy.” (I.V)But they thought that love could conquer all. After a very short secret wedding, Romeo and Juliet decide to meet secretly that evening. As Romeo walks with his friend Mercutio, waiting the evening, they are confronted by Tybalt. After a deadly fight Mercutio and Tybalt lay dead, and Romeo is banished forever. Banished is banish’d from the world, And world’s exile is death; then “banished,”Is death misterm’d. Calling death banished!”Thou cuts’t my head off with a golden axe. And...
