A tragedy is a serious and often somber drama that typically ends in disaster and focuses on a character who undergoes unexpected personal reversals (Murfin and Ray). Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two teenagers "falling in love , whose family hate each other and have been feuding for years. In the book, Romeo is the tragic hero whose death brings about the peace of the two families. A tragic hero is a character (protagonist) of high social standing that is destined to fall because of a tragic flaw (Ashcraft). A tragic flaw is a character trait in a tragic hero or heroine that brings about his or her downfall (Murfin and Ray). For every tragic hero there is a tragic flaw. Shakespeare creates Romeo as a tragic hero by portraying him as an impulsive, fickle character who is known around Verona as "well-govern'd  (Shakespeare I v 67) but is self-centered and also takes matters of love critically which leads him to being suicidal. Romeo is in love with the idea of being in love and how it affects him but not others. Romeo said, "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,/ Too rude and boisterous, and it pricks like thorn  (Shakespeare I iv 25-56). Romeo has been crying over his "love , Rosaline, because she would not have sex with him. Rosaline is "in strong proof of chasity well arm'd ¦ Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold ¦  says Romeo (Shakespeare I i 201, 208). He starts to question his idea for love. He starts wonder on how love treats him and how he should treat it. The way he takes love critically begins his downfall to death. He is more concerned to what love does to him, he is being self-centered, and he does not think about how he loves. Juliet says, "...It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, / Too like lightning, which doth cease to be ¦  (Shakespeare II ii 118-119). Romeo came to see Juliet and she tells him that they need to slow down. Juliet is saying that they are going too fast, but then Romeo doe