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Conflict In Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare in the year 1591. The plot is mainly based on an Italian tale which narrates about a pair of young star cross’d lovers whose feuding families are the main obstacle to their marriage, to which their death leads to the end of their parents strife to one another. Although it is very ancient and historical, the masterpiece has withstood the considerable test of time and still remains popular today. Romeo and Juliet has been studied and taught worldwide in schools, universities, and other famous educational institutions. The play has also been reproduced thousands of times on television, film, and live theatre. It has endured large groups of audiences and the reason being is most …show more content…

R&J fits this criteria because there are multiple conflicts to each other which have connections with one another and makes the story interesting and more exciting. For example, the love game where Romeo loves Rosaline, but Rosaline loves Paris, but Paris loves Juliet, and finally the cat and mouse game ends with Juliet loving Romeo and Romeo turns from Rosaline to love Juliet. Another example of an interesting conflict is the ‘unknown love’ at the party when Romeo meets Juliet. At the party, Juliet sees Romeo and Romeo sees Juliet, and loving each other ‘at first sight’. Only until Juliet finds out that Romeo is a Montague and things get complicated from this point. Another excellent example of a double conflict that makes it more exciting is a fight where Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt in retaliation and he runs away from the city before the Prince comes and tells that he is banished from the city. Dracula satisfied my criteria because the piece has a very exciting and unusual conflict, which makes the story more interesting in a way and by incorporating an exciting mysterious ‘setting’ to the conflict of the story that makes the readers feel that even though location in the story has changed, but it still feels like all of the good characters are all on the run from Dracula and Dracula will turn the protagonist's friends and families, one by one, into vampires like him and makes the conflict more intense and interesting to read. A great example of this is that Jonathan Harker, the main protagonist of the story realizes that Dracula is not human but suffers from a vampire-induced fever so he can’t go back to England to warn everybody In time. It is a double conflict - Harker can’t go anywhere as he is too sick from the fever, and he knows that there is a danger approaching England but he can’t do anything about it. Even though Dracula’s genre and R&J’s genre are different, they

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