Benvolio As A Peacekeeping Character In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Benvolio and Tybalt are portrayed as characters with distinctly opposing personalities that is apparent in many different instances throughout the play. Romeo's best friend, Benvolio is depicted as the classic nice guy, incorporating all the personalities necessary to be one. He is calm, patient, an advocate of peace between the two rival families, and always viewing the cup as half full instead of half empty. During the first quarrel between the Montagues and the Capulets in the play, Benvolio tries to bring peace by saying " I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / Or manage it to part these men with me " ( , , 62-63). It is apparent that Benvolio has good intentions and that he

In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Romeo appears to have two relevant friends known as Mercutio and Benvolio throughout the tragedy. Although both companions show great qualities which make them two friends of great value, Benvolio is shown to be the exceptional friend that never seems to displease Romeo. Benvolio is a companion of Romeo that shows remorse, opens new opportunities for Romeo, and knows how to deal with Romeo’s character appropriately. Without Benvolio, Romeo would have deeply struggled when facing the obstacles he encountered throughout the entire play.

This also links to the theme fate because it seems inevitable that there will be a conflict between the families at this point. Mercutio rejects Benvolio's suggestion to leave the streets, he playfully mocks Benvolio's attempt to prevent an argument by characterising him as extremely quarrelsome. "Thou wilt quarrel

However, Tybalt (Capulet) comes along and will not “talk of peace! I hate the word,” leaving Benvolio with no choice but to continue the conflict. The citizens of Verona are obviously sick of the conflict that exists between the Capulets and Montague, as they shout “Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montague!” So it is clear that the people of Verona do not like the frequent civil wars. This negativity towards conflict could also be seen as a metaphor for maintaining the peace in Shakespearean society.

The scene starts off with Benvolio and Mercutio on a beach with the sky clear and the day hot, while that in mind you can perceive the mood of the story would be peaceful like the day, but that perception would be wrong. “For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.”(III. i. 4). Along with the hot, sunny day, tension is already being recorded and noted while the characters know that blood is going to be spilled today. From that, the cold blood and hatred felt before Tybalt enters the scene, is foreshadowing how the negativity is going to effect this perfectly hot and sunny day. As soon as Tybalt walks upon the beach it starts to get windy causing many bystanders to leave their place at the beach so it would just be the two, Mercutio and Tybalt, fighting a gun war per say to show how one of them could easily defeat the other. They talk bad to one another continuously until the triumphed Romeo appears on the scene. While the weather stays the same, Mercutio receives his temper and shows his irritation once Romeo starts trying to show love rather than attempt to fight this evil Capulet. Once Mercutio has had enough of Tybalt bashing on his best friend, he tries to fight Tybalt to restore Romeo’s dignity, but ends up dying for his best friend in this horrific gun battle. As soon as Romeo realizes his friend just got shot, the day's sky turns to night and the suspending storm suddenly approaches and Romeo is left in the cold night’s rain with his dead friend. Romeo realizes that he needs revenge for his best friend’s death, so he shoots Tybalt. Once Tybalt’s lifeless body has hit the ground, a sudden storm approaches. The storm was added in to intensify the scene in a way words possibly could not. The movie producer of this film wanted to not only focus on the scripting of the film, but rather what was

Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet is set on a street in Verona. Benvolio and Mercutio are walking in the streets. Benvolio tries to convince Mercutio to go home because there are Capulet’s in the streets, and actions will surely be reckless. Mercutio responds by comparing Benvolio to a violent man who denies that he is, who fights when no fight is called “Thou are like one of these fellows that, when he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table and says ‘God send me no need of thee!’ and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.” (pg 114) Mercutio continues to tell Benvolio that he is easily provoked and that he is feisty, in hopes to rile Benvolio up. Tybalt and others

“‘What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?/ Turn thee, Benvolio. Look upon thy death’” (Romeo and Juliet.1.1.56-57). The person threatening Benvolio is Tybalt Capulet from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was a play written in the mid-1590s, and it involved two “star crossed lovers” (Prologue.6), Romeo and Juliet, from feuding families that eventually took their lives to be together. One important character in the play was Tybalt, a teenager of the house of Capulet and Juliet’s cousin. He was very skilled with a sword and very prideful. Tybalt was killed by Romeo in 3.1. Even though Tybalt was directly killed by Romeo in Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet, there are many other factors that indirectly led to his downfall, including Romeo and Juliet’s secrets, the ancient grudge, and Tybalt’s pride.

Benvolio gives his testimony on the dual, swearing on his life that he is telling the truth, and that Romeo I innocent and Tybalt is the one who should be held

Throughout Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet characters who show importance adapt their own traits, such as Tybalt who is seen as pugnacious and violent and Benvolio who appears to be a peacekeeper and an all around righteous person. These characteristics are seen in the scene where Benvolio is trying to break up the fight, “I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / or manage it to part these men with me.” (Shakespeare 1.1.61-62) In this case Benvolio was trying to help keep the peace by giving them a choice of helping him stop the fight, which could have stopped plenty of complications and tragedies from arising. Tybalt portrays his characteristics in the same scene as Benvolio, “ What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!” (Shakespeare 1.1.63-65) In the previous action Tybalt displayed

3) Benvolio- Over the course of this scene we acknowledge that Benvolio, the nephew of Montague, is a courteous, amiable and non-romantic idiot in the views of Romeo. Firstly, Benvolio is a courteous character as he wants to prevent another fight between the Capulets and Montagues evident in Line 62, in which is stated “Part fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do” and Line 66, in which Benvolio replies aggressively to Tybalt “I do but keep the peace. Put thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me”, which basically means put your sword away, or use it to help avert a fight, disclosing that Benvolio is a peacemaker. Secondly, Benvolio is an amiable and non romantic idiot, as he assists Romeo 's parents in discovering their son 's issue as he consistently barricades himself in his room through the hours of the night evident

A: He is describing Benvolio as someone who loves to fight, but we know from the verybeginning of the play that Benvolio loves to keep the peace and tries to avoid conflictbecause he tried to break up the fight between the servants.

He was heard provoking Benvolio, a Montague who was trying to put an end to the quarrel before it got out of hand, “… talk of peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and you. Let’s go at it, coward!” This soon led to Benvolio partaking in the fight as well.

Benvolio is calm and helps keep the peace between the other hot headed characters in the play. Benvolio shows his brave, peaceful personality in Act I, Scene I when he yells “Part fools!/ Put up your swords. You know not what you do,” (Shakespeare 379). Someone else might have just let them fight and figure it out on their own. Instead, Benvolio tried to stop Mercutio and Tybalt and prevent the brawl.

Mercutio, Benvolio, Romeo, and Tybalt all have attributes that either escalate or de-escalate the violence and killing of two men (3.1). Mercutio’s attribute of not being able to self-examine causes the situation to be escalated between him and Tybalt. His attribute’s effect on the situation is shown when he says, “make it a word and a blow.” (3.1.41,42) and he thinks the fight is Tybalt’s fault. Benvolio, with the attribute of being cool and collected, tries to de-escalate the situation between Tybalt and Mercutio. Benvolio steps between the two and tells them “withdraw unto some private place” (3.1.53). Romeo has strong impulse causing him to think before he acts and also causes him to escalating the violence after Mercutio is dead.

<br>The uses of crime & violence versus peace and law are demonstrated in Act 3, Scene 1. Tybalt and Mercutio exchange remarks back and forth, when Benvolio steps in and encourages them to stop.