Characteristics Of Benvolio In 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

This also means that Benvolio is to blame for Mercutio’s death because he persuaded Romeo to go to this party where he met Juliet ‘Go hither, and with unattained eye / Compare her face with some that I shall show.’ If Benvolio hadn’t persuaded Romeo to go to Capulet’s party, he wouldn’t have met Juliet.

William Shakespeare created and developed the Character Tybalt as a foil for Benvolio in his play Romeo and Juliet. The two characters share some important similarities, examples of these include the fact that Tybalt and Benvolio are cousins to the main roles Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt is cousin to Juliet and Benvolio is cousin to Romeo), They are both very family oriented, this means that they both are loyal supporters of their family and family name. Some differences in character regarding Tybalt and Benvolio are that while Tybalt is Insensitive, Benvolio is good-hearted. Whenever Tybalt is eager to fight, Benvolio comes in to save the day and tries to make peace. And While Tybalt Doesn’t care about the effects that his actions have on others,

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.

Benvolio is a very static character and does not change much. He is very reliable demonstrated in Act 1 Scene 1 when Lord Montague and Lady Montague rely on him to manage the whereabouts of Romeo (Shakespeare 380-381). Not many people would be able to keep up with anyone of importance and young age such as Romeo. Benvolio is also very practical when he says “Romeo, away, be gone!/

Put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me." we can tell that he is peaceful. Throughout the play people seem to trust Benvolio: Lord and Lady Montague ask him to find out what the matter with Romeo is, and then Romeo confesses him sorrow about Rosaline who he is in love, and later on Prince Escalus asks him to explain two deaths. These three events show Benvoios's character as benevolent, composed and trustworthy.

“And I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter”(III.i.29-30). Benvolio should be pardoned because he was just trying to help Romeo and keep everybody out of trouble. He was a peacekeeper so he did not do anything wrong. He was just being nice.

“‘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

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the character Benvolio is one of Romeo’s comrades and is considered a peace keeper at this point in the play. Those two aspects of Benvolio are displayed in the slide made above. When Romeo confesses about his love for Rosaline and asks how he should forget about her, Benvolio gave him the tip of “examin[ing] other beauties” (1.1.236). Rather than leaving Romeo without any advice, Benvolio decides to bestow on some tips. A visual I decided to use for this is a thumbs-up. Another example of Benvolio being one of Romeo’s friends is that Benvolio was searching for Romeo, by calling out his name, even knowing that “he ran [towards the orchard wall] and leapt [the wall]” (2.1.6). Even when Romeo is out

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.

“Romeo: Tut! I have lost myself; I am not here: This is not Romeo, he’s some other where. Benvolio: Tell me in sadness, who is that you love? Romeo: What, shall I groan and tell thee? Benvolio: Groan? Why, no; But sadly tell me who. Romeo: Bid a sick man in sadness make his will. Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! In sadness cousin, I do love a woman.” (1.1.190-197) In the quote, Benvolio can see that Romeo is distraught, and attempts to find what is bothering him. Romeo is saddened by being denied the love of Rosaline, who he believed to be his true love. Instead of attempting to resolve the issue in their relationship, he quickly turned and dramatically spoke of her to Benvolio. This is just one of the many examples of impulsivity in adolescence in the play of Romeo and Juliet.

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the two secondary characters, Benvolio and Friar Lawrence are both intended to be voices of reason in Romeo's hectic life by the playwright. The men are Romeo's confidants, Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and the Friar is Romeo's "ghostly father" (2.2.45). They frequently give Romeo advice on how to conduct his love life. When Romeo was head over heals for Rosaline, they discouraged the ill-advised romance because they knew it would end in calamity because she was a Capulet. Benvolio urges Romeo to "Compare her face with some that I will show," (1.2.88) at the Capulet feast so Romeo will forget about her. Friar Lawrence thinks in the same vein saying "That's my good son," (2.3.47) when Romeo denies

In the beginning of the play Romeo gets his heart broken by a girl named Rosaline. Benvolio finds out about Romeo's loss and quickly tries to think of ways to help him. He finds out that there is going to be a ball taking place at the Capulets and Rosaline is going to be there. He pressures Romeo to go to the ball last minute when he says "Your lady's love against some other maid that I will show you shining at this feast". This quote proves that Benvolio was peer pressuring Romeo into going to the ball so he would get over Rosaline. In addition, Benvolio is the one who brought the fact that Rosaline was going to Romeo's attention when he says "At this same ancient feast of Capulets'. sups the fair Rosaline whom thous so loves". Venvolio knew

Mercutio is a relative of the prince and friend to Romeo. He is an eloquent man and becomes the center of attention whenever he appears in the play. It seems like he dominates Romeo with his teasing and irony. He mocks Romeo as he thinks he is too sentimental and tells him how foolish he is; he turns all of Romeo’s thought about love into sexual metaphors.