Romeo vs. Tybalt In the play Romeo and Juliet, there are many characters with numerous different personalities, but two of the characters are Romeo and Tybalt. Romeo and Tybalt are two very different people. Romeo is a teenage boy that is very emotional and loving. He is a Montague that is in love with a Capulet and is a main character. Tybalt is angry and protective of his family, is a Capulet, and the cousin of Juliet. Romeo is emotionally loving and Tybalt is angry at the Montague’s.
Romeo is super emotional as seen in act III scene I when Romeo says, “But love thee better than thou canst devise…,” (Shakespeare 429). He can also be seen as emotional in act III scene III when he says, “Tis fortune, and not mercy. Heaven is here where Juliet lives…” ( Shakespeare 435). He is so emotional because he truly cares about Juliet and wants to be with her. He doesn’t care that they’re from families that are at feud. He truly loves her so much that he asked her to marry him and then keep the marriage a secret from both of their families. He is so committed to her that he even has been willing to kill
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Romeo doesn’t care that they are at feud, he just cares about Juliet, which he is madly in love with. Tybalt doesn’t want to be associated with Romeo or even see him. He feels that he is a villain to people. Romeo doesn’t mean to be a villain, he just wants to have a conversation with Tybalt, but Tybalt thinks he wants to fight. Since Romeo and Tybalt had a little misunderstanding, Mercutio was killed on accident when he was trying to separate them. Since Mercutio was killed, Romeo felt like he needed to get revenge and kill Tybalt. After he killed Tybalt and was banished from Verona he has realized what he has done and now feels bad about it. Romeo didn’t mean to fall in love with Juliet, but because he did most of this
Tybalt is a very vengeful character. When tybalt and Mercutio fight, Mercutio gets stabbed and dies which will cause Romeo go crazy. “Why the devil come you between us? I was hurt under your arm.”(3.1.70) with these words, Romeo feels guilty about his best friend's death, that was mainly caused because Romeo denied fighting Tybalt.
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,
Romeo is very dramatic and obsessed with love. In the beginning he is obsessed with being in love, it doesn't seem like he loves Rosaline, he just wants to be in love with someone. But by the end of the book I think he might actually love Juliet.
When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.
In addition to Juliet’s parents, Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, instigated a fight between himself and Romeo. This is what caused Romeo to be banished from Verona to Mantua. This is what started Juliet wanting to leave Verona to be with Romeo in Mantua. This started Romeo not finding out about Juliet faking her death and then awakening to go be with Romeo. Tybalt is an instigator, troublemaker, and fighter, and a reader may label him as unforgiving. If he would have found out about Romeo and Juliet he might have disagreed with both of them. If one were to wondered when Romeo and Tybalt fought, one would find it in Act three Scene one. In lines sixty-nine through seventy-three, Romeo confesses to Tybalt that they are in fact related and Romeo is married to Juliet. Tybalt did not even catch on to what Romeo was talking about. Tybalt comes off as arrogant. In some ways Romeo and Tybalt are very
Romeo is even more of a sensitive person when it comes to things involving Juliet. For example, when Romeo says to Juliet, “A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.” (2.2.155-156), and this shows Romeo is very sensitive because all Romeo wants to do is make Juliet happy. Since Romeo isn’t used to having a girl love him back because of his history with Rosaline, he gets very excited to discover she loves him back. Romeo acts very impulsive when making decisions involving Juliet. Romeo says to Juliet, “Th’ exchange of thys love’s faithful vow for mine.” (2.2.127). This shows Romeo is impulsive because Romeo consistently makes impulsive decisions without thinking first. One of his major impulsive decisions was when he decided to marry Juliet after less than 12 hours of knowing her. Romeo isn’t the best decision maker, as he doesn’t think before he makes life changing
Romeo is passionate and emotional but also imprudent, which results in him taking actions that endanger his life and lives of those around him. In the play, Romeo is quickly characterized as dramatic and overly emotional. Throughout the course of
Firstly, after meeting Juliet for the first time, Romeo falls hopelessly in love. He climbs the wall to her orchard; he drops in where a guard of the Capulet household could have killed him. But he thinks he is on “love’s light wings”(II.ii.30) When Juliet steps on her balcony, she scolds Romeo. But he tells Juliet that he would rather die than be without her love “And but thou love me, let them find me her… My life were better ended by their hate… Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.” (II.ii.80-83) Romeo has only known Juliet for barely a night and he is already in love with her. He already wants a future with Juliet without even trying to get to know her. This shows how quite irrational Romeo is because he’s quick to judge. How does he
As the story of Romeo and Juliet further progresses, Romeo’s true character becomes more and more apparent; he seems to act solely by impulse. Romeo acts moreso with his emotions, and sudden thoughts than his brain which stores reason and logic. This causes for tragedy and unfortunate circumstance by the end of the poem. This shows how impulsive he is in most of his decisions and how he tends to be very dramatic in everything that he does. When Romeo discovers that Juliet is dead, he almost immediately dramatically decides to drink poison, to kill himself. “Here’s to love, O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick - thus with a kiss I die.” Which shows how quickly he makes wrash and dramatic decisions without thinking it through. If Romeo had not been so careless and impulsive in his decision, Juliet would have awoken and they would both still be alive.
Romeo’s love for Juliet caused the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio. If Romeo had not fallen in love with Juliet, her cousin, Tybalt, would not have been angry at Romeo and wanted to kill him. Tybalt would not have killed Mercutio and Romeo would not have had to kill Tybalt in return. Romeo cannot fight Tybalt because his wife, Juliet, is a Capulet, “...But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love and so, good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own, be satisfied” (Shakespeare 3.1.66-69). This quote proves Romeo’s love for Juliet is so strong he resisted fighting Tybalt because he now loves the Capulet name, which caused Mercutio’s death as well.
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
Secondly Tybalt sends a decree for a fight and he kills Mercutio. This is shown by “I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I”. This reveals that Mercutio wants to have a fight with Tybalt. Tybalt wants to have a fight with Romeo the most but Mercutio gets in the way. Mercutio feels that he must stand by the Montague’s. He feels he needs to be a true Montague and fight. Romeo retaliates and kills Tybalt in anger and revenge for his friend. This is apparent in the line “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him. This conveys that Romeo felt he had to get revenge for Mercutio but he really didn’t mean to kill Tybalt and couldn’t believe that he’d actually done it.
Romeo is showing his passion by proving he is willing to die just to be able to see Juliet. This shows that he really loves her because he would die for her. The author uses other characters’ point of view to show Romeo’s passionate and
Romeo’s immediate reaction to Juliet is very crazing. This shows that Romeo’s character is very quick to switch. He is very quick to fall in love with someone. This also shows that he is extremely emotional and moody. He can just switch from being the saddest person in the world, to the happiest person in the world in just a few minutes.
Emma Hutchison Coach Smoak English 1 May 16, 2018 Romeo & Juliet Compare and Contrast. Love is a mystery to many, to some it is about romance and family. To others it is a feud and complex emotion. Unrequited love is a love from one side and only one side of a relationship.