Examples Of Foils In Romeo And Juliet

Tybalt, the cousin of Juliet, has a quick temper and frequently acts on impulse. When he first appears, he arrives at the brink of a street fight, and when Benvolio tries to calm him down he gets riled up and says, “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word/ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee./ Have at thee, coward!” (1:1, 71-73) When Prince Escalus arrives to see this fight, he raises the consequences on the warring families. He will no longer stand by without doing something and threatens, “If ever you disturb our streets again,/ Your lives shall pay the the forfeit of the peace” (1:1, 98-99). The stakes of the family feud have been taken to a new level, whereas before the Prince was just mad but didn’t act on that anger, now the families are threatened with death if they act out again, all because Tybalt and some Capulet servants jumped into a fight. Even after the Prince’s threats, of which Tybalt knows the stakes, Tybalt comes to fight Romeo the next day but instead finds Benvolio and

Benvolio is the peacekeeper in Romeo and Juliet. He wants no trouble, but gets pulled into it anyways. So naturally, he will try to maintain the peace instead of creating more issues. In Scene One, the Capulets and Montauges start quarreling on the streets over virtually nothing. Benvolio comes in and explains what had been going on, and tried to stop the arguing. “I drew part to them. In the instant came the fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared...” (1.1.101-105) He tells the Prince everything in aims of keeping the peace. Though it already happened, he still wants the fighting to be kept silent between the two feuding families. He does this by being truthful to the higher power. Benvolio also attempts to keep the peace in another situation by again telling the Prince about what had happened. When Mercutio killed by Tybalt, and Tybalt slain by Romeo, Benvolio couldn't help but say what had happened. “O Noble Prince, I can

When a fight happens between Tybalt and Mercutio because of his temper it ends with the death of both. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare he sets up Benvolio and Tybalt as foil characters. He made Tybalt someone who always gets into fights. However, the tension between their families will only increase their anger for each other. Even though they are antithetical, their care and respect for their own family are the same. William Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet as a Tragedy. The writer writes the story with Benvolio and Tybalt as enemies that are completely different, but still show some similarities to each other.

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

First, Romeo’s kind and calm personalities act as an advantage for many of the possible problems he could have had, such as Capulet hatred towards him and his increase in violence. After Romeo was depressed because he liked Rosaline and she didn’t like him back, his cousin Benvolio helped Romeo sneak into a Capulet party so he could get over Rosaline and pick another woman that he might want. As Romeo was describing how Juliet looked to his cousin, Tybalt, Capulet’s nephew, figured out that Romeo was at the party by his voice. He then confronted Capulet and asked him if he could kill him, but surprisingly Capulet lets him stay at the party and calls Romeo a gentleman and a good man (Shakespeare Act 1 Scene 1 Line 64). Capulet could have captured him or even killed him, but he did not. Capulet stated that Romeo is a well-governed youth and that Romeo is a good man, which shows that Romeo isn’t a person who would cause a commotion and that he causes no threat to the Capulet family. Later on, as Mercutio, the prince's kinsman, is arguing and fighting with Tybalt about him being one of his villain Romeo’s friends, Romeo comes in and says, “Tybalt, the reason I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such greeting. Villain am I none.Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not” (Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 1 Line 58). As Tybalt wants to fight Romeo and bring in violence,

“‘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

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.

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt was the enforcer of the story and always tried to stir up more chaos in the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. An example of this can be found in Act 1, when the Capulet’s party is going on, when Tybalt senses Romeo, he ends up getting very defensive and angry, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague, / Fetch me my rapier, boy. . . Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, / To strike him dead I hold it not a sin” (5.52-57). Tybalt’s quick and unthoughtful actions make him a hot-headed character who is very easy to dislike. With Tybalt’s previous actions, the story leaned toward the idea that he was going to cause a damaging and lethal event to happen, which he indeed did. After spotting Romeo at the Capulet party, Tybalt felt disrespected and was livid, due to this, he challenged Romeo to a duel. When they both meet up on the street, Romeo attempts to make peace with Tybalt and to end all disagreements between the two. However, Tybalt is there to cause drama and he declines, stating that Romeo’s request “shall not excuse the injuries / that thou hast done to me” (3.1.61-62). Tybalt’s rejection of Romeo’s request led to his own death as well as Mercutio’s. Another consequence of these actions was Romeo’s banishment from Verona, which ended up

Through Benvolio’s language during the scene he shows that he a loving peacekeeper. “The day is hot, the Capulets are abroad. And if we shall meet not ‘scape a brawl.” That quote shows how Benvolio is worried about the Capulets and how if they come close they could get in a brawl. “By my head, here come the Capulets” this quote shows that Benvolio is worried about the seeing the Capulets. ”Withdraw unto some private place.” This last quote shows that the

From the beginning Mercutio was with the Montagues and Tybalt was a kinsman to the Capulets. This sword fight between the two did not only prove fatal to Mercutio and Tybalt, but also to Romeo and Juliet. The prince, before this fight, had declared that the next person that starts a quarrel with the other house shall be put to death. Benvolio knew this

In the tragic play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, I can infer that Tybalt is a very aggressive person who wants dominance over the rivaling family based on the use of metaphors he uses throughout his dialogue. In Act 1 Scene 1 lines 58-60, Benvolio tried to pick apart the fighting servants but Tybalt gets the wrong idea and says, “What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.” This piece of evidence shows us that when Benvolio pulls his sword out to try to stop the servants, Tybalt immediately thinks Benvolio is trying to fight the servants and tells Benvolio he is going to kill him and Tybalt uses a metaphor to describe the servants as “heartless hinds” which basically means worthless.

Benvolio is a proud Montague making him despise the Capulets. Due to his caring attempts to help his cousin cheer up, takes him to a ball where then he meets Juliet. (Act 1 scene 2) Benvolio was known for a guy who stops fights and later on towards the end of the story he matures and ends up not fighting as much. Benvolio's acts are towards caring about his sad cousin lead him to encourage his cousin Romeo to the ball and from there Romeo and Juliet's love tragedy starts, His sad fate is lead towards his being alone. His friend Mercutio died and then so did his loving cousin Romeo.

The second quote above shows Benvolio feels Romeo is better than what Mercutio says he is. It also shows Benvolio is not a big fan of Tybalt. When Mercutio doubts Romeo’s ability of beating Tybalt in a challenge, Benvolio responds by asking what the big deal about Tybalt is. Benvolio does this for two reasons.