Romeo And Juliet Conflict

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two families living in the city of Verona, have been fighting for ages. The rivalry causes a series of events to occur, including the children of the two families kill themselves due to their everlasting love for the other person. The cause of this is that their emotions are leading their way of life as opposed to the thoughts they have, and the knowledge they have acquired throughout their life. This reveals the theme that acting more on emotions than logic often causes unnecessary actions and rivalry to occur.

The relentless and dangerous feud between the Montagues and Capulets is elaborated in Romeo + Juliet through the contrast in tone, speed and style of music when these two different parties are introduced. The Montagues are introduced with is light and airy music, however, the music is altered to a heavy western style when the Capulets enter the scene. The musical elements create anticipation among the audience as they foreshadow the imminent fight. Furthermore, the distinctive difference in race between the Latino Capulet boys and Anglo-Saxon Montague boys represents and symbolises the conflict between the two houses. Reinforcing the ongoing war between the Montagues and Capulets, Baz Luhrmann has applied corresponding camera shots of the two contrasting family crests which are opposite primary colours. Therefore, Luhrmann makes reference to the conflict theme exploited in Shakespeare’s work. (link)

After the opening monologue and montage there is a clash between members of the two households at a petrol station. It starts with some light humour with discussion of biting thumbs at each other before quickly escalating. Guns are soon drawn and innocent bystanders are involved before a fire starts and is soon strongly burning. This fight soon involves the whole country and the police and army intervene in order to break it up. Luhrmann also uses close-up shots of Tybalt and Benvolio as well as several slow-motion shots of key events to show the increase in tension. Luhrmann uses the fire is a visual example of the burning detestation between the two families. In contrast, Shakespeare’s opening scene is not as violent, contains no fire and has more humour. Another example of how Luhrmann shows the animosity between the two families is by leaving their feud unresolved. However, in Shakespeare’s play there is a brief conversation between Montague and Capulet at the end where they promise to build gold statues of the others child. In the film Luhrmann cuts out the interaction, choosing instead to finish the film with the Prince’s line “All are punished,” before having the news reader say the Prince’s final speech of the play, summing up the sad ending of Romeo and Juliet. This highlights the

The play 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare is centred around the concept of conflict and the way it leads to tragedy. Luhrmann's film appropriation explores the same idea, however, he exaggerates the conflict and violence to engage a contemporary audience. Through the feud between the Montague and Capulet families, Shakespeare and Luhrmann demonstrates the terrible consequences of conflict. This is seen in Act three Scene one, the fight scene where Mercurio dies and Act five Scene three, the final scene where Romeo and Juliet take their own lives.

There are many ways for someone to face conflicts ahead of them. Some people are incapable of thinking out their options and run into things without being prepared. Some people are cowardly and run away, and some run away for the right reasons. And finally, some people think through their options to chose the most logical way to solve what’s ahead of them. Many different examples have arisen and each show which ways help and hurt a person. People respond to conflicts in many different ways, some will face them head first, some will think through the options, and some will ignore the conflicts, how people chose to respond will affect who they are.

The story begins with a brawl between the houses of Montague and Capulet, who are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus tells the houses that anymore fighting will be punished by death. Count

To start it all off, Juliet's father is very controlling of Juliet, he wants her to be married to the County Paris and Capulet doesn’t care what Juliet thinks, he want to take matters into his own hands. When Paris talks about being in love with Juliet, Capulet gives him not only his blessing but he

Irreconcilable opposites prompt mental and physical experiences. Conflict from a literary perspective is an inherent representation of one’s incompatibility between objectives that is usually expressed through an active disagreement between two or more characters or forces. This is usually demonstrated through both internal or external means as it forms the essential element of the storyline. This poses an obligation from the author, to introduce and develop conflict in order to achieve stability or the story outcome. The feuding nature between the Montagues and Capulets in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” truly demonstrates this conflicting struggle between opposing houses, family members and individuals. In juxtaposing, parent and child, violence and peace and the profane and sacred aspects, Shakespeare’s acclaimed tragedy establishes the “ancient grudge” and elucidates that this warring mentality ultimately leads the climatic deaths of protagonists Romeo and Juliet as they “take their life”.

Many might think it was originally a duel. A play fight from which no one knew who would walk out victorious. But this duel resulted in a couple of unfortunate deaths. It all started early in a Thursday afternoon in Verona. Tybalt started intensely arguing with Romeo. Romeo didn't want to fight the cousin of his loved one, Juliet. A few moments later Mercutio started arguing with Tybalt. They realized his anger wouldn't go down. Romeo then jumped into action and gets in between Mercutio and Tybalt. Mercutio’s words before his death, “I was hurt under (Romeo’s) arm,” (III.i.71). Romeo “this gentleman, the prince’s near ally. My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf. My reputation stained with Tybalt’s slander,” (III.i. 71-74).

The Morals of Two Star-Crossed Lovers Conflict is common within all relationships, but in the play Romeo and Juliet this is taken to a new extreme. Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two teens’ forbidden love. In the play, Romeo falls in love with the beautiful Juliet, but their love is forbidden due to a long standing feud between their households. During the play, many themes can be seen as the two protagonists face different conflicts. These themes go from both extremes of love to hate, fate to choices, and emotion to reason.

ROMEO AND JULIET - CONFLICT ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare is a play about two people who fall in love but are forced to be apart because of the conflict between their families, the Montagues and Capulets. This family grudge has been on-going for many generations. There is a lot of conflict in the play for different reasons. Throughout Romeo and Juliet the theme of conflict is conveyed in many forms, mostly through physical violence. Conflict is key in the structure of the play, it is highlighted in the beginning, middle and the end.

Lord Capulet’s and Tybalt’s reaction to Romeo’s presence greatly differ, resulting in an external conflict. This conflict further moved the plot as it reinforced the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. If the Capulets and Montagues were friends, then Tybalt would not have cared about Romeo’s presence, and would not have engaged in a heated conversation

Feuds between the Capulets and the Montagues continue in Acts III and IV. First, within scene one a fight between Mercutio and Romeo against Tybalt breaks out. Feuds are shown here because of how Mercutio purposely mocks the Capulets to the point of Tybalt wanting to fight him. When Mercutio says “Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!” (3.1.49-50), he is instigating a fight. Second, I believe the Prince’s decision to exile Romeo was influenced by feuds. The prince probably knew if he executed Romeo the Montagues would call for the blood of lady Capulet for who specifically asked for Romeo to be killed. The prince saying “And for that offense immediately do we exile him hence.” (3.2.196-197), exhibits how

In Act IV of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses the conflict that Juliet faces to show the theme that when faced with conflict not facing up to the problems can make it worse. In the very beginning of act IV Juliet comes to Friar Laurence chamber because she doesn’t know what to do. She is to marry Paris thursday but the problem is she doesn’t want to because she is already married to Romeo. “What must be shall be” (IV.1.21) The inner struggle here comes from Juliet's father. She has always been obedient and has done whatever her father has asked of her. Now Juliet is denying her father's wishes of marrying Paris, she doesn’t want to disappoint her father and is also finding it difficult to stand up to him. Her not standing up and resolving this conflict between her and her father envitibly is

Yet another dispute between the Montague and Capulet families has finally resulted in a fatality. A simple quarrel between Mercutio and Tybalt turned into a playful sword fight. A spectator reported Young Romeo attempted to put an end upon the altercation when Tybalt made a thrust at Mercutio. The strike penetrated the stomach area of Mercutio, killing him shortly after the brawl ended. Another spectator remarked “Many of Mercutio’s companions found his death a hysterical event. When he begged for assistance, no person came to his aid. It was only after his death it finally struck Verona he was actually gone.” “Mercutio was a dear friend of mine, and I will miss him greatly” Romeo stated after the duel. Just after the chaos had struck, Romeo