Tybalt As A Temperamental Character In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Tybalt is the color red. The color symbolizes many things. It symbolizes passion, violence, and danger. Tybalt is a man who loves a good fight. In the first act, he tries to fuel the servant fight, then he tries to provoke Benvolio to draw his sword. At the party, Tybalt heard Romeo’s voice, and he was nearly in a fight. Tybalt ordered, “Fetch me my rapier, boy” (I, v, 62). Since Tybalt could not fight Romeo at the party, he sent a letter to his house. The letter proposed a duel between him and Romeo. In Act 3, scene 1, Tybalt and his gang walked by. Romeo appeared and Tybalt started calling Romeo names. Romeo stayed calm and attempted to reason with Tybalt; however, Tybalt still wanted to fight. Mercutio challenged Tybalt, then Romeo stepped

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

Tybalt could also be held accountable for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt's nasty, hot-headed persona caused a lot of strife as he always started brawls and quarrelled with the Montagues. When Tybalt gets in a fight with Mercutio, despite the Prince's orders to

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.

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.

In the play, Tybalt has a large influence on the death of Romeo and Juliet. He helps contribute to their deaths because he kills Mercutio and Romeo in turn kills Tybalt which causes Romeo to be banished from Verona. Then Juliet tells “Romeo is banished!” “There is not end no limit, measure, bound. In that word’s death: no words can that woe sound.” (Act III Scene II 128-130) If Romeo had taken the time to think before killing Tybalt he would not have killed him and therefore he would not be

In the beginning of the story, the Montagues and Capulets break out fighting in the middle of the street and they are told to stop their fighting or else they will be banished. Juliet is a Capulet, and her father is hosting a party. Romeo longing for his love Rosaline decides to crash the party. When Romeo meets Juliet, he instantly falls in love. But almost instantaneously Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice. “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What! Dares the slave. Come hither, covered with an antic face, To fleer and scorn our solemnity? Now, by the stock and honor of my kin. To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.” (1.5.53-58) From this moment on, Tybalt is out for Romeo.

First off, Tybalt was responsible for his own death because he never thought about the negative effects of his immature actions. The recklessness of these actions led him to give in to his urge to fight with Romeo at Capulet's party is a prime example of how he was so careless knowing the possible consequences. After Tybalt found out Montagues were at this party he wanted to start a massive brawl even though the king of Verona strictly told them he didn’t desire any more pointless fighting. The king had said, “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel Will they not hear? What, ho!

This example only gives the audience a teasing taste for what is about to happen as a result of Tybalt’s short temper. Fast forwarding to act three, Tybalt’s impulsive behavior is far more drastic and impactful to the play this time around. At the town square of Verona, Tybalt and his compatriots run into Mercutio and Romeo. Still infuriated by Romeo’s presence at his family’s ball, Tybalt decides to vent his anger by challenging Romeo to battle him. When Romeo backs away, Mercutio steps in and fights with Tybalt. After a while of fighting, the distressed Romeo steps in to break it up, but, “Tybalt, reaching under Romeo’s arm, stabs Mercutio and flees” (3.1.82). Mercutio announces that, “I am hurt” (3.1.83), and eventually dies. After witnessing his friend be slaughtered, Romeo seeks revenge on Tybalt, and subsequently slays the murderer of his best friend. As a result of Romeo’s actions, the inamorato is banished to Mantua. When putting the pieces together, the audience watching the play can see how Tybalt, and not Romeo, is responsible for the banishment. Romeo was simply seeking to avenge the life of his friend, while Tybalt’s actions were a direct result of violent thinking. Tybalt’s choice to fight and kill one of the play’s main characters highlights the high degree of his vicious personality. Tybalt’s actions end up dooming the peaceful partnership of Romeo and Juliet and thus the outcome of the play takes a turn for the

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

Tybalt thinks it an honourable, righteous act to kill any Montague in order to protect the Capulet family name. He takes Romeo's presence as open-faced effrontery and a clear threat to the Capulet family. Lord Capulet orders him not to start a scandal: "I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement. " Even this train of restraining and soothing comments do not succeed in calming Tybalt's petty and vengeful feelings of hatred for Romeo: "I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall" (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 92-93).

Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare the theme of the story is the powerful nature of love and fate. Tybalt is the secondary character that affected the theme the most. Tybalt effected the theme of fate by Romeo killing him and getting Romeo banished from Verona where Juliet lived. Tybalt also affected the theme by making Juliet reconsider her love for Romeo. Tybalt affected the theme of Romeo and Juliet.

Does everything he does have a consequence? Tybalt was unkind to people and killed many. In return he deserved to die. By faith he got what he deserved. When you act in a way that is unkind you deserve to have done to you what you did. Why did tybalt die? Who or what killed him? He killed mercutio,so he deserved to to die since he shed the princes cousins blood. He keeps starting fights with the family´s even though the prince said not to. He is a hot head and can get angry fast which can cause problems.

I chose to write about Tybalt because I feel he is quite rather an interesting character because his main purpose in the play was to act as an antagonist towards the Montague. However in the play his hate for the Montagues wasn’t justified and just made Tybalt’s hate towards the Montague a mystery. I wrote a journal entry from the perspective of Tybalt and what was going through his mind and thoughts during the start of the play to his death.