Tybalt and Benvolio: Compare and Contrast

The play, Romeo and Juliet, is a very popular tragedy that many people have read or seen performed on a stage. There are many different characters with contrasting personalities that make up this complex story. Two main characters are Mercutio and Benvolio, and they both play a major role in the events that take place in this play. Mercutio is a foil to Benvolio and we can see how these two people have opposite qualities and will react differently to difficult situations. Conflicts in the play will show us how Mercutio is hot headed and quick to act, while Benvolio is calm and logical.

He tried to make everything right with his family and the others and does not construed anything that has happened between the two families. When Tybalt killed Murcutio and Romeo killed Tybalt, Lady capulet was heartbroken that her nephew(Tybalt) was dead. The law is that if you kill then you shall be killed. Lady capulet wanted Romeo dead, Benvolio said “Romeo killed Tybalt out of spite, he carried out the law. Take pity on thee”(act 3, scene 1 lines 381).

William Shakespeare created and developed the Character Tybalt as a foil for Benvolio in his play Romeo and Juliet. The two characters share some important similarities, examples of these include the fact that Tybalt and Benvolio are cousins to the main roles Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt is cousin to Juliet and Benvolio is cousin to Romeo), They are both very family oriented, this means that they both are loyal supporters of their family and family name. Some differences in character regarding Tybalt and Benvolio are that while Tybalt is Insensitive, Benvolio is good-hearted. Whenever Tybalt is eager to fight, Benvolio comes in to save the day and tries to make peace. And While Tybalt Doesn’t care about the effects that his actions have on others,

Especially, since Tybalt is from the opposite family of Romeo, he begins to seek vengeance.

He acts as protector and "chief swash-buckler" for the Capulets and he appears to feel that the Montagues represent a great threat to the Capulets. The first time we meet Tybalt is in Act 1, Scene 1, line 66. He enters with his sword drawn and tells Benvolio, both friend and cousin of Romeo, to "turn thee... Look upon thy death." When Benvolio says he has no need to fight and wants to keep the peace, Tybalt responds with, "...talk of peace?

Two characters Mercutio and Tybalt who both had similar and different personalities and both hates eachother following the fact that their families did not like eachother.They are both protective of their families and are loyal.The difference between the both is that Mercutio is a character with a light personality.He is passionate,he gets what he wants,loves to live his life and he is carefree.Tybalt on the other hand is a character with a much darker personality.He is troublesome,he is a hater,quick tempered and takes things too serious.The hatred fighting all started when Tybalt finds out something about Romeo and Juliet and tries to find a way to get rid of Juliet,Mercuito hears of this and is willing to Fight Tybalt for the protection

| The complete opposite of Romeo, who doesn’t consider the feud anything to do with him personally, Tybalt takes it more personally than the head of the family himself and considers “enduring” Romeos presence humiliating and a scorn against his name. He takes the matter of pride seriously.

On Monday, (the 25th of July, 1550) In Verona, Italy. In the small market square, once again the streets were not at peace. The Capulets and the Montagues were fighting. The fight led to include members of each family, and ultimately led to the Pince issuing a word of caution to the two families.

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

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

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

One conflict is between ‘Tybalt’ and ‘Romeo’. This conflict is interesting because it is between two contrasting characters. Tybalt is very arrogant and has an aggressive attitude. While Romeo is quiet

“‘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.

As opposed to Benvolio Montague who tries to defuse the conflict, Tybalt is quick to draw his sword and challenge Benvolio into a fight. His hostility is clear through his words and actions, as shown in the dialogues “What, art thou drawn upon these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death … What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.

Tybalt’s loyalty to his family is very significant to him, because even though he does it for the wrong reasons, it is with good intention as he is honoring his family’s name. For example at the Capulet’s ball, he is protecting his family’s reputation because he thinks Romeo is trying to cause harm to the Capulet name.