ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Romeo’s fatal flaw is his rashness; in a sense, his passion can be seen as both his greatest strength and his greatest flaw. As the friar warns Romeo: “violent delights have violent ends” (2.6. 9).

Detailed explanation-2: -Romeo and Juliet are immature and impulsive, which leads to hasty decisions, and eventually their deaths.

Detailed explanation-3: -An analysis of Romeo’s character in the play Romeo and Juliet, reveals that his fatal flaw was his impulsiveness due to him falling in love and marrying Juliet, becoming a murder after he had killed Tybalt and Paris, and him killing himself.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the second scene of Act II, Romeo and Juliet impulsively decided to get married, less than twenty four hours after meeting each other. In scene II, Romeo asks Friar Lawrence, “but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us today” (Shakespeare 410).