Romeo And Juliet: Romeo - A Tragic Hero
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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 unhappil ....
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.... and in the city of Verona the Montagues are a well known and
respected family. It is a known fact that the Montagues are of noble birth when
it is said by Benvolio in Act 1, Scene 1, Line 141: "My noble uncle." Benvolio
is referring to Lord Montague, who is the father of Romeo. The Montagues are
also a rich family, and that is one of the reasons for the respect for Romeo.
"Verona brags of him... a bears him like a partly gentleman." This was said by
Lord Capulet in Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 6 ....
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