smilest upon the stroke that murders me. (III.III)After the banishment, Juliet’s family has arranged a marriage between Juliet and Paris. This is too much for Juliet and refuses to marry him. Friar Lawrence helps device a plan to help Juliet in predicament. They will fake Juliet’s death, and then Romeo and Juliet could run away together. A message is sent to Romeo right away. But with circumstances out of their control, Romeo never receives the message. Arriving at the tomb, finding Juliet dead, Romeo poisons his self. “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”(V.III) Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead, stabs herself with his dagger. Thy lips are warm yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath there rust, and let me die.After the tragic deaths of the “Star crossed lovers” the two families are brought together by the loss if their children. And there is peace again in Verona. Romeo and Juliet are a different kind of tragic hero. They are an exception to the tragic rule. This is a tragedy of fate. The whole play revolves around bad luck, poor timing, mistakes and misunderstandings. Between man and man, man and himself, man and fate. In this conflict, Shakespeare asks us to accept an improbable series of events as the basis of the plot. (Webster 230)It was not the fault of the heroes, that their families had a feud between them, the conflict between Romeo and Tybalt, the message that didn’t make it to Romeo. These were all due to fate. As shown in these three plays in Shakespeare’s tragedies, the hero must suffer and most cases die. They have to face conflicts, struggles and flaws. And all must have a tragic end. In most cases tragic heroes are responsible for their own falls. ...
