Romeo

• is the eponymous protagonist, and a tragic hero
• -his hamartia is impulsiveness

  -at the beginning of the play, Romeo is presented as:

  -introverted (uninterested in family battles)

  -brooding (he considered the link between love and hate)

  -obsessive (with courtly love)

  -sensitive
• Romeo is admonished for being impulsive and obsessive: swearing his undying love to Juliet so "too rash... too sudden"