Our discussion of the play did not treat the question of the tragic fl aw (hamartia): the weakness of character that brings disaster to the main characters. One of Romeo’s fl aws may be rashness—the...

Our discussion of the play did not treat the question of the tragic fl aw (hamartia): the weakness of character that brings disaster to the main characters. One of Romeo’s fl aws may be rashness—the rashness that led him to kill Tybalt and thus be banished. But he may have other fl aws as well. What might they be? What are Juliet’s tragic fl aws, if any?