How was Juliet a tragic hero?
Tragic heroes are more or less perfect people with what’s called a fatal flaw. Juliet was a good girl. She was pretty, came from a respectable family, and considered relatively intelligent. She had been obedient and reverant toward her parents for most of her life. But then came her tragic flaw. To understand her tragic flaw, one must consider the culture of this play’s intended audience: English people living during the Elizabethan era. To these people, “honor thy father and thy mother” was very important. And in the wealthy classes, women were often considered as chattel. They belonged to their father until he gave her to a husband. So Juliet’s fatal flaw was her disobedience. She did every thing right until she refused Paris’s proposal and lusted after a member of a rival clan. Romeo should have been her blood enemy, but she instead went against her father’s orders and married him. Because of her disobedience, she paid the dearest price she could. Off topic, I agree that this is one
