Anger Is Blinding In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet shows how the story of true love can break the ancient grudge between two families. The conflict in the story is Capulets against Montagues. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (1.Prologue.1-4). The grudge between the two families led to fighting and even death.

Have you ever felt so angry or disliked someone so much, to the point where you have the need to cause that person harm, even if you don’t know why you or the people around you dislike them? William Shakespeare portrays what could happen if this anger is taken to the extreme in his story Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two teenagers who fall in love. The problem is, their two families have a long lasting hatred towards each other, causing conflicts with Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Due to their families’ hatred and anger towards each other, Romeo and Juliet come up with a plan so that they can be together, resulting in their deaths. While shakespeare does suggest that anger can be a powerful feeling, he also implies that anger and hate can cause people to do dangerous things and go out of control. Taken together, these show us that hate and anger can cause people to become dangerous and cause harm and destruction to themselves and the people around them.

The Opposing Themes of Love and Hate in the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” hate is shown to be stronger than love because...

In act 1 scene 1, Tybalt says “As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. meaning he hates the Montague and wanted to fight them.” If tybalt wouldn't hate as much as he did he would have been nice and wouldn't always start fights with the montague with later on wouldn’t lead to Mercutio's death or his very own.

The Irrational Hatred in Fair Verona Everyone knows Romeo and Juliet due to the many spin offs and references in our modern day. However, this essay will go over the topic of Irrational Hatred in Romeo & Juliet. In Romeo & Juliet, the destructive effect of irrational hatred becomes apparent when the servants in the beginning of the story fight, Tybalt fights with Mercutio, and the unnecessary hostility between the Montague and the Capulet, which then causes the Prince to outlaw public fighting, the death of Tybalt, and the death of Romeo and Juliet.

In Romeo and Juliet hate s a big component of the play. This hatred is used in the many fights that end up with someone being killed. “To strike him dead I hold not a sin.” In this quote Tybalt is wanting to kill Romeo because he is a Montague and Tybalt is a Capulet. This means that there is a lot of conflict. “ ’Tis he that villain Romeo.” Tybalt calls Romeo a villain because of the conflict between the two parties. Hatred is a very big part of the story of Romeo and Juliet. Hatred is a big part of Romeo and Juliet being

Hate is one very important idea examined in Romeo and Juliet and is explored by Juliet when she states ‘Here's much to do with hate, but more with love’ (1.1.166). William Shakespeare conveys the consequences of hate in his play through the ancient feud between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s, the irrational decisions made and the deaths that resulted. It is the ancient feud between the two families that lead to the irrational decisions made by Romeo and Juliet as well as their demise. It is questionable as to whether Romeo and Juliet’s lives would be spared if their families were not feuding.

Tybalt’s death caused a bigger hate between the two families, because as the paragraph above state, the Capulets think that Romeo is to blame for Tybalt’s death. People do not know that Tybalt was the cause of Mercutio’s death. The Capulets want to punish Romeo, because there is no other better chance for the Capulets to get their enemies than their only son. They end up going to the prince and lady Capulet say, “Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, for blood of ours shed blood of Montague” (ROM. 3.1. 111). Lady Capulet is being combative here she is so sad about her cousin’s death, and she tells the prince with a very respectful and begging sound to shed the blood of one of the Montagues, like what happened to the Capulets. The prince’s reaction was so kind because he only orders a banishment for Romeo. When Romeo know he reacts badly and says, “Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say “death”” (ROM. 3. 3. 12). Romeo wishes if the prince orders of killing him. He would rather death than leaving juliet alone in Verona. Leaving juliet will result of her sadness and

To begin with to the statement made earlier about the claim that the Montague's and Capulet's were responsible for the death of their children. If both families didn’t have an ancient grudge bot4h of the children wouldn’t have died. The both families had an ongoing grudge that didn’t allow them to be married to one family to the other. In document A, “Two Households”, it states in the third line “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.” Proving that both families had or have a grudge and that made the turn into a war. Making both households have a fight. Finally, if anyone had any contact with the opposing family they will be killed probably making Romeo and Juliet very scared to be together.

When Juliet says, “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse they name, / Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (2.2.36-39), this displays the feuding hate between the two families, Montague, and Capulet. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, Ignorance and hate play a significant role. Without these two main aspects, the tragedies, would have not occurred. Three characters, Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Tybalt are directly and indirectly accountable for the deaths of Romeo, and Juliet. Capulet, is the father of Juliet, in which arranges her to marry Paris. Juliet does not like this, thus, caused dispute between both of them. Capulet displayed a very demanding character, being strict on rules. Lady Capulet, is of course the mother of Juliet, but started the whole topic of marriage at the beginning of the play. This was comparable to when Romeo liked Rosaline, but did not get the love back, as for now, Paris loved Juliet, however Juliet did not return the love back. Tybalt, is a member of the opposite family, the Montagues, in other words, the family hated by the Capulets. Tybalt also plays a character of hatred, as he kills Mercutio, first causing a fight, in who Romeo, liked very much, initiating trouble in the end. When this occurred Romeo said, “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first create! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity, / Misshapen chaos of wee-seeming

Lord capulet and Lord Montague are the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because they started this family feud. In the play the text never describes what started this feud between the two families, but Lord Capulet and Lord Montague, if they did not start it, they certainly did not try to end it which is where the problem comes in. They blame the other family for most their own problems. In the play Paris says “By thee old capulet, and montague, have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.”(Rom.1.1.88-89) Paris was telling the two family heads that they have caused enough disturbance already before, and that no one needs their

In the last scene of the play, Capulet says to Montague “O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter's jointure for no more can I demand.” (Shakespeare 5.3.307-309) Before Capulet says this, Romeo and Juliet both died and Their parents were surprised. The parents don't want to see more deaths because Romeo's mother died as well. They decide to be at peace with one another but still, in scene 3, there is mental violence that happened “Hang on thee young baggage!

As stated in the prologue, the “ancient grudge” (line 3) between the Montagues and the Capulets is an ongoing one only to be ended in one way, “Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife” (line 8) the death of the two. If Romeo and Juliet had obeyed their parents wishes, they would not have fallen in love so much that they would be willing to take their lives for each other. That one simple choice caused death to both of them, it was not fate that killed them, but themselves when they chose not to obey orders and get into all sorts of

When families start to clash like they did between the Capulets and Montagues, problems start to arise. Within the beginning of the play Sampson and Gregory were already trying to irritate the Montagues. As Gregory walks past he says, “I will frown as I pass by them, if they bear it” (Shakespeare I.i. 35). In this line Gregory and Sampson were trying to pick a fight with the Montagues, if the Montagues would allow for it. These actions lead to unnecessary tragedies and deaths. Other tragedies like this come up when Tybalt, Juliet's cousins and other Montague's get in a fight. Tybalt started a fight with Mercutio and killed him which lead to Romeo wanting to get revenge.