Romeo And Juliet Fatal Flaws Essay

Do fatal flaws in a character’s personality contribute to his/her demise?
How many times have we ever experienced death in our lives? None. That’s probably because we’re still alive. But, many of those who aren’t, probably had a reason why they aren’t with us today. In many cases, it can be said that our fatal flaws are the ones that are responsible for our demise. Whoever we are, we will always be people who have great flaws. That’s at least what most people know for themselves. However, are we really aware if whether these flaws will possibly dictate throughout their entire lives? In the late 1500’s, William Shakespeare wrote a magnificent play, Romeo and Juliet, which many audiences would consider it as a Love and Death story. Well, not

only the fact that this play displays a love and death story but that it also displays a story where some critical aspects in people’s lives which easily leads to their destruction. In other words, a fatal flaw in a person’s character definitely contributes to their demise. Many people consider a fatal flaw a great disadvantage. In fact, it actually it. But, it is important that these fatal flaws come from both negative and positive intentions.
On the one hand, a person’s fatal flaw will easily contribute to their demise when they make an evil intention.

More specifically, when a person shows an aggressive attitude towards others, there is no doubt that one will result with an atrocious consequence. “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw... Wretched boy, you hung out with him here, and you’re going to go to heaven with him.” (Act 3, Scene 1). Tybalt shows a disgusting attitude in front of Romeo and Mercutio. Thus, the situation leads to a deadly fight which ended up with Tybalt losing his own life. Hence, Tybalt’s fatal flaw of having evil plans has led to his unfortunate demise. In addition, a person with great anger towards another individual may also lead themselves to their demise. When Romeo sees Tybalt kill his comrade, Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge (Act 3, Scene 1). Although Romeo was successful in his revenge towards Tybalt, it doesn’t mean that he ran into a better situation. Under the orders of the Prince, Romeo was to be banished from the city of Verona. Due to Romeo’s fatal flaws of his impulsive anger towards Tybalt, he sets himself up for his own downfall. Considerably, this also sets out a moral that any act lit by our impulsive anger should not be condoned as we are not able to have the correct state of mind to handle such situations. In the long run, when people intend a negative behavior towards others, such as being mean, cruel, or being

extremely angry, it will broaden the chance of them ending in their demise.
However, our fatal flaws can lead to our demise even if things are done with a positive intent.

To put it another way, when people do things with a positive intent, it may not always mean that what they are doing will definitely come within a positive result. In particular, a person who ignores all the negative potentials that might possibly happen to him might sound like this person is so majestic and full of positivity. But what a person is really doing isn’t always what he thinks he is doing. “Romeo: (to himself) Is she a Capulet? Oh, this is a heavy price to pay! My life is in the hands of my enemy.” Although Romeo and Juliet realize that they are each other’s family enemies they still continue to love each other by ignoring the deadly potentials to what their love would situate. (Act 1, Scene 5). Their ignorance made them run into their demise by losing their hopeless lives. They might have been thinking that ignoring the dangers of their love would seem as a right thing to do, but, as a result, it can easily be considered that their ignorance was almost surely the cause of their demise. Furthermore, people who think they are doing something caring and kind doesn’t always mean that they are doing exactly what they think they are doing. That means that some things you might be doing that you think are good for another individual, may be as dangerous as poison to them. For instance, Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, forces her to marry with a man she does not love. Lord

Capulet thinks he is doing this for her own good but he barely realizes that he is just ‘feeding her poison’. This, eventually, results with his daughter losing her life. Although his intended positivity hadn’t ended him up with his own demise, but it ended someone he loved to their demise. Therefore, whether we think we are doing the right thing or doing nice things to others, what really matters is actually what we are doing, not what we think we are doing.
All in all, fatal flaws are something we will always have with ourselves which goes along to the ends of our lives. What really gets people run into their demise is that there can be unforeseen consequences. That’s when we try to do something negative and even things that seem like a positive thing to do which makes such a huge fatal flaw in our lives that lead towards our demise. Every person knows that they have a fatal flaw that they’d have to drag along with them. They just don’t know what it is and when it’s going to situate. Is there a way to prevent that? In fact, there is none. That’s because it’s life. It’s always full of unexpected things with new learnings. Running into these situations is something we can’t do anything about, however, dealing with these situations is something we can.