The Cause Of Violence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Mercutio is Romeo’s big cousin. Mercutio isn’t the best friend to have because most of the time he’s getting into trouble with other people. The time when he was walking through the square with his friends the montagues, Tybalt and his crew the Capulets had showed up. Tybalt started to ask where Romeo was because he wanted to deliver a message from Juliet. Mercutio started to joke around with Tybalt by calling him names and making fun of him, but Tybalt didn’t like that so he had challenged Mercutio to a sword battle. Romeo finally showed up and was telling them to stop fighting before one of them killed one another. Mercutio is such a heavy headed person he doesn’t listen to his cousin so he goes ahead and starts to fight Tybalt. Tybalt

Mercutio wanted to help Romeo and Mercutio strongly believed that if Romeo went to the party then he will be fine, “I mean, sir, in delay we waste our lights in vain, like lights by day! Take our good meaning, for our judgment, sits five times in that ere once in our five wits” (I. iv. 44-47). Mercutio is the primary reason that Romeo went to the Caplets party, Mercutio suggests that Romeo needed a distraction in order to get Rosaline off his mind. When Mercutio’s group went the party it started a chain reaction of bad decisions made by Mercutio and Romeo, the decisions made had a damaging effect. Mercutio is one of the participants of the bad decision making. He made a devastating decision when he invited to fight him, “And thou make mysteries of us, look look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s to my fiddlestick, here’s that shall make you dance. Sounds, consort!” (III.i.43-45). When Mercutio’s ego is threatened he does what he needs to protect it and himself and he fights Tybalt to prove that he is strong. Mercutio chooses to fight and he is aware that Tybalt is a trained brawler, but he ignores that and meets his end. In the play, Mercutio makes a dramatic decision that changes the story drastically and his acts hurt others around

The fiery Tybalt, enraged with the presence of Romeo at his family’s party, demands for Romeo to fight him. Calmly, Romeo responds, “Tybalt... I have to love thee/Therefore, farewell” (3.1.33, 36). Romeo “[has] to love” Tybalt because he has just married the lovely Juliet, who is a Capulet. This holy marriage makes Romeo cousins with Tybalt, since Romeo is now a Capulet. The quote demonstrates that the “love” compels Romeo to not fight, since Romeo denies the challenge by exclaiming “farewell” to his new cousin. However, Romeo’s attempt at peace backfires when Mercutio, defending Romeo’s honor, is stabbed by Tybalt. The dying Mercutio stutters to Romeo, “I was hurt under your arm,” (3.1.71). Mercutio exclaims that since Romeo tried to break up the brawl between Tybalt and himself, Romeo’s sword created a vulnerable spot on Mercutio to be exposed. Thus Tybalt killed Mercutio “under [Romeo’s] arm”. Romeo’s love for Juliet, and his new family, clouds his better judgement, leading him to refuse Tybalt’s challenge. Since Romeo doesn't want harm to come to his new cousin, Mercutio spontaneously defends his honor, unfortunately leading to his early death. Thus, Romeo’s passive decision to stay peaceful, out of love, drives an end to Mercutio’s life. Shocked and disgusted by his best friend’s untimely death, Romeo confronts Tybalt once

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Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet violence is the result of love. “ For never was there a story of more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo”(V.III. ).Violence in Romeo and Juliet is the direct result of secrecy, and family feuding.

    Romeo and Juliet is a story of two teenagers with rivalry families. Romeo and Juliet fall in love, despite how the families feel about another. A large series of violence occurs after, leading to the death of people of both families, and Romeo and Juliet themselves. The meaning of Romeo and Juliet is that love can trigger violence. This is shown in the main fight scene in Act 3 Scene 1 . This is secondly shown in the fight scene during Act 5 Scene 3. This is finally shown in the violent suicides of Romeo and Juliet.

The fight between Mercutio and Tybalt kills both of them. It kills them because of a fight that happens in the streets of Verona because of Romeo loving Juliet. The fight started off as a suttle argument between Tybalt and Romeo. When Tybalt insulted Romeo,

Monday afternoon, in Verona Italy, blood was shed. Within the square the Kinsman of Prince Escalus named Mercutio and Tybalt of the Capulets got into a brawl, Tybalt slew Mercutio, and in revenge and anger, the son of Lord Montague, Romeo killed Tybalt.

When many people think of Romeo and Juliet, they almost immediately associate it with one of the greatest love stories of all times. What people do not associate it with is violence. The truth is that violence is the greatest factor that moves the story along. The very first scene of the play opens with a sword duel between servants of the Montagues and Capulets. The friction continues throughout the story, and by the end of the story, five people who were healthy and youthful end up dead because of the tension between the two families. In the same way that violence affected the citizens of Verona, violence can have an enormous impact on society.

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Romeo and Juliet is always thought to be a play about innocence, love and the ideal version of lovers sacrificing themselves for one another. People do not realise what characterises love. Baz Lurhmann has transformed an iconic masterpiece of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to explore the issues in everyday society such as violence in the streets and the feelings that drive it, religion as the root of most violence and minorities experiencing victimisation. These themes add additional layers of meaning and also create a contemporary version of the original story itself.

Violence is a big problem in the world. As stated by the FBI, in only the U.S there is an estimated 367.9 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.” Romeo and Juliet is a book/play based on the most famous love story of all time, the play tells the tale of a boy and a girl from different families who meet and fall in love.

Steven Pinker once said “Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations towards violence we also have inclination to empathy,” and the reason we go to violence is that we believe that's the best way to solve our problems. This paper is about the play Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet. It's about how these two kids meet at a party and adore each other, but their two families don't like each other, so their love puts them in dangerous situations in the end. In the play Romeo and Juliet there was many instances where violence has solved problems.

This famous tragedy play written by William Shakespeare is set mainly in Verona, Italy (as voiced in dialogue by the Chorus). A fight breaks out between some of the Montague and Capulet servants (including Sampson and Gregory) before Benvolio and Tybalt enter the streets of Verona. Benvolio tries to break up the fight but Tybalt, who hates peace, would rather stir more chaos and violence. Montague and Capulet see the disturbance and begin to fight as well. Their wives then urge them to stop, but before the fight fully escalates, the Prince Escalus warns them to keep the peace on pain of death. The Montagues notice Romeo’s sad and isolated behavior, so they see if his cousin could try getting answers. Benvolio finds out that Romeo is feeling lovesick after his unrequited love (Rosalind), so he tries to comfort his friend and encourages him to seek another.

The chorus starts us off in Verona where an old argument between two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, caused new violence in the city, and two children of these families were affected by the argument. Only the death of Romeo and Juliet, the “star-crossed lovers”, can end the feud. Romeo tells Benvolio about the girl he loves, but she does not love him back. Lord Capulet denies Paris’s proposal for his daughter Juliet, but he invites him to a party to look at other women to see if he really loves Juliet. Benvolio talk Romeo into going to the party to find other women besides Rosaline. At the party Romeo notices how beautiful Juliet is and wants to know who she is. Romeo worships Juliet at the party and they fall instantly in love. As