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Delicious cookies are made of delicious ingredients. In the same way, awesome plays are made of awesome components, too. In plays, the awesome ingredients are the characters of the play. However among all the ingredients, just like the fact that in chocolate cookies, chocolate is the most important, there is one character that makes the play so interesting. That one delicious character of the play is Romeo. One may say, well duh, his name is in the title. However, Romeo is a character that is so crucial to the play that his role is more than the sum of all the other characters. Each character had served a purpose in the play. Mercutio was the comical character, Tybalt was the trigger of the tragedy, Juliet was the love factor. Among all these characters, Romeo was the predominant character because he serves as a trigger of all events, represents the young’s hotheadedness, and the most romantic figure. It is an undeniable fact that Romeo played a large role in most of the main tragic moments. The three events that Romeo caused are his falling in love, the death of Tybalt, and finally, his impulsive suicidal action. His falling in love with Juliet can be viewed as a lovely example of the saying “love has no limits”. In this case, they were trying to love through the feud of the family. For anything hard to happen, something hard has to be done. However, when Romeo knew that he is in love with Juliet, he has done nothing to try to make it work except for hiding it from others. What a cowardly act, just covering up what he can’t take responsibility of! His lack of responsibility was the first arrow that was shot towards the tragic end. Killing Tybalt was another foolish action done by Romeo that led to a big problem. The murder itself was a big problem. Killing his wife’s cousin because of his friend is understandable yet not acceptable. His lack of decision led him to get banished, when he should have remembered that he is not by himself anymore. He decided to take revenge rather than have a happy life, and all the future actions are the consequences of his one wrong choice. In the end, he spoiled the last chance given to compensate his past mistakes with an unruly suicide. He was blinded by the sadness of his love’s death and decided to do such act without logical thinking. He should’ve thought logically whether she really would’ve died even without informing her. If he thought that for one moment, then he would’ve waited for a messenger for her last words at least, and eventually hear the actual plan. Again, the fault is in Romeo’s hands. It is sad how the character that is supposed to only do mad love caused all these bloody events that led to their mad love’s devastating end.