Violence In Romeo And Juliet

Again in Romeo & Juliet, Tybalt, talking with Romeo, says “this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore, turn and draw”(III.i.67-68). This encourages fighting because Tybalt hates Romeo, and is using the “injuries” Romeo caused him as a reason to fight him. Civil War general Robert E Lee once said “What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors”. The hate that fill the world during war keeps us fighting, because we want to punish those we hate.

Violent Scenes in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragic play, which is about a feud between two families of Verona, causing the deaths of two young lovers. This is apparent in the haunting opening passage of the play - "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" Although it is a play about love there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict. The play opens with a feud between the Capulets and Montagues and ends with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

    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.

Romeo and Juliet is conflict and love. Conflict and love are both shown through characterization in all of the characters. In the beginning, we see Juliet 's character as a little young child who obeys her family duties. When she meets, Romeo, her character is taken on a rollercoaster of emotions. Juliet 's character is the source of conflict and we see this through her developing actions. Romeo creates Juliet into this powerful young women. Romeo is so important to Juliet that she does not want to loose him. Conflict begins to arise when things actually take off. Once they are together on the balcony, is when they both realize that they are meant for each other. That true love is true and that they are destined for the stars. True love is

Romeo and Juliet was a classic romance novel about passion, love and tragedy, written and first acted in 1595. According to Alan Durband, many versions of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet all relate to Shakespeare's understanding of early life in Verona. Romeo, a Montague, falls in love with Juliet, a Capulet, because he is romantically inclined. The Capulets and Montagues are feuding households His impulsivity caused a lot of people to die and experience emotional pain. Falling in love with Juliet was the event that started a chain reaction.

Unfortunately, the message was not sent, so when Romeo arrives he thinks she is dead. He loves her so much that he would die so they can be with each other. When Juliet awakens, Romeo is dead,with a poison he has taken. Juliet realizes that he has not left any poison for her. Juliet stabs herself because she loves Romeo. The death of Juliet is represented by Friar Laurence's passage, when he says that the parents love forced her to illness(death). The overprotection of the Capulets, allowed the feud to get in the way of their daughters love. This feud caused Juliet to fall in love with a “wrong” person, a Montague. When her true love is banished from Verona, she feels that she cannot openly tell her parents about her love for Romeo, so she fakes her death. With the Capulets overprotection, Juliet does not feel safe telling her

The young Capulet was raised in a household where her father would abuse Juliet both verbally and emotionally, including some suggestions of physical abuse. When Lady Capulet announces to Juliet that she is not to be sad for her cousin's death, because she is to be wed to Paris, Juliet refuses to do such as she still loves Romeo. As Capulet hears of Juliet's decline to marriage, he bursts into a rage, calling Juliet worthless for being his only child and not doing anything for the sake of his status. Capulet's anger goes to extreme lengths as he threatens to drag her to the church and expresses his anger at Juliet by announcing he feels the urge to hurt her. As a result of experiencing this damage throughout her childhood, Juliet may have viewed Romeo as a way to escape her father and his abusive ways.

In the play Romeo and Juliet, two noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are at war. This was first shown in Act 1, Scene 1, where the servants of the families quarrel in a ‘public place’. “The quarrel is between our masters, and us their men” (1. 1. 18). From there, the rivalry subplot infuses the entire play and helps drive the plot to its tragic ending. The main point that led to the death of Romeo and Juliet was the ongoing feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.

Romeo chooses to avoid confrontation and chooses to walk away. Romeo leaves the scene unharmed and alive. Although some may think that violence can solve problems , it does the opposite. Things can be talked out. Violence complicates

Juliet will not stand with her father. Romeo is depressed about the message of Juliet’s death leaving him wit no other choice but to commit suicide. In william Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet the Capulet parents are guilty as charge for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they forced Juliet to marry Paris, started the party inviting the Montagues. Not to mention, the parents had conflict since the beginning.

We also see some conflict in act 5 scene 3 we can infer this from the following quotation “ O, i am slain!” this line shows there is conflict and fighting going on because this line shows that there is a fight going on between Romeo and Paris and this a type of conflict so we know that there is some sort of fighting going on because Paris has been slain so that means this was a result of all the conflict which was going on . This would appeal to the audience because they would want to know what is going to happen next . I would stage this scene by having Paris slain and on the ground in the graveyard i would have Romeo covered in blood because he has just killed Paris.

Shakespeare demonstrated that feud can cause fights and deaths. Feud is at fault for the death of Romeo and Juliet. In the prologue, line 10 states “and the continuance of their parents rage”. The two lovers would not let their parents rage get in the way of their love for each other. Romeo and Juliet met at Capulet's party and fell in love with each other knowing their parents would not agree.

Violence leads to major events and in some cases leads to more violence. The violent events in the story adds suspicion and interest in the story by the reader. Firstly, The deaths of people in Romeo and Juliet led to major events such as Romeo and Tybalt. Romeo killed Tybalt, which ended up getting him exiled right after Romeo married Juliet so when Romeo killed

Even Juliet acknowledges this with “My only love sprung from my only hate” (…….) Loving someone who is your supposed to be your arch enemy will definitely bring complications into Juliet’s family, knowing this Juliet still continues to pursue the relationship. This makes the violence between Capulet and Montague flourish. From this incredible amount of love for one an other, Romeo and Juliet’s great love results in a powerful amount of violence. Violence is locked into Romeo and also Juliet’s minds from their chaotic society. After Romeo had been banished from Verona he speaks of suecide if he cannot be with Juliet. “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death”. ( ) With this Romeo is implying that death were to be better than being banished from Verona. Romeo then offers to stab himself for causing Juliet so much pain. Romeo solves his problems with violence, the only solution he knows for everything is always ending with someone dying. Romeo and Juliet go straight to violent actions when problems arise, the violent actions are not

Is Romeo and Juliet a Shakesperian play full of love at first sight or just rash and consequential decisions? In this play we meet two star crossed lovers who meet at a party on one night and then, almost instataneously, plegde themselves for each other and plan to marry, which then leads to six people dying including themselves. Romeo and Juliet should have taken it slow with their affairs in order to eliminate the violence and death that ensued from them falling in love, encourage a healthier road to peace in order to unite both families, and to better encourage a more joyful relationship, as mentioned by Friar Lurence.