Violence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

    Firstly, this meaning is shown in Act 3 Scene 1. In Act 3.1, Tybalt comes after Romeo for seeing him at the party and talking to Juliet, which leads to a large fight and the death of Mercutio and Tybalt.

This soliloquy depicts Juliet’s emotions in the way that reveals her flourishing love for Romeo even if it means her possible demise. The images that begin to grow in Juliet’s mind represents her overwhelm of fear. Shakespeare’s use of imagery and repetition regarding evil and terror emphasizes this concept of Juliet’s hysterical state of mind. The aspect of repetition also reveals the wandering emotions that Juliet has for Tybalt, her close cousin, in which Romeo did murder. Juliet’s distress begin to consume every ounce of her sanity as she worries of being buried alive and waking up before she is meant to. Her anxiety of so early waking and “pluck[ing] the mangled Tybalt from his shroud” indirectly expresses her emotions of guilt and sorrow for the death of her cousin (IV, iv, 39). The many references to Tybalt, such as when Juliet claims that

Throughout Romeo and Juliet the theme of conflict is conveyed in many forms, mostly through physical violence; reflected in the era of the Renaissance where there was political turmoil and many European nations were at war. Shakespeare presents the theme in other forms as well; family versus family, sacred versus profane, parent versus child and language versus inner conflict. Conflict is a key in the structure of the play; it is highlighted in the beginning, middle and end. As an audience we are constantly being reminded of conflict which is reflected within the era the play was written in. The Renaissance was the 'rebirth ' of classical learning and was also the time when Science challenged many traditional Christian beliefs which resulted in Catholics fighting Protestants; the Gunpowder plot and the Spanish Armada. Shakespeare chose to dramatise conflict as it was the context in which he was writing plays. It is therefore arguable that this period was characterised by irreconcilable opposites in politics, religion and art. Nothing in the world can exist without its opposite- just as love cannot exist without hate, violence cannot exist without peace.

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

Tybalt’s purpose in the play is to cause conflict by dragging on the long time, since dormant feud between the two households. This is shown at the Capulet’s party when he goes to start a quarrel with the Montagues and Lord Capulet’s family stops Tybalt from starting trouble and says this is a time for love not war. Tybalt sees Romeo and straight away thinks of him as a threat and thinks that Romeo is challenging him by just being at the party. He brings Romeo’s presence to the attention of Lord Capulet in order to cause conflict. This is an example of how Tybalt is a character that does not have the ability to just forget about the whole feud and find a way to settle it; he just seeks revenge on any member of the Montague family.

Tybalt’s monstrous behaviour in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet fuels the feuding families’ hate and consequently results in the deaths of the doomed lovers. His violent dispositions, fierce devotion to the Capulets and irrational behaviour all contribute to the final fatalities of the hero and heroine. Tybalt's violence leads to chaos in between the two bickering families. Tybalt is to blame for their deaths as his violent tendencies had chain reactions. Tybalt's hatred for the Montagues is strong as he feels like they are a threat to the Capulets.

The hot-blooded and furious Tybalt had a grudge against Romeo, which inevitably led to a series of misfortunes, and in the end, the two protagonists died. He had held that

This foreshadows that Tybalt will seek revenge on Romeo and he does, by killing Mercutio. The next time Romeo and Tybalt meet, they duel, and Romeo kills

Tybalt affected the theme of Romeo and Juliet. After Tybalt killed Romeos best friend Romeo was highly upset and then went to Verona. Then Romeo and Tybalt got into a fight ending in Tybalt's death which then got him banished from Verona."Romeo has been banished" (Act 3, Shakespeare).Verona is where Juliet lived therefore by law Romeo could not see Juliet which was a conflict of the story. Romeo then had to go to Mantua. Tybalt made the theme of the powerful nature of love and fate because even the inconvenience of Romeo legally not being able to see Juliet they still overcame it.

Shakespeare manipulates Tybalt in many different ways to advance the plot. One such way is revealing aspects of the personality of the characters. Nevertheless, we had always seen Romeo as a calm and peaceful character until his best-friend was brutally murdered by Tybalt and this unleashed the inner Romeo is seeking revenge by exclaiming ¨Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him¨ Line 126. This quote means Romeo says bluntly me and you are fighting to the death. However, this also shows us Romeo can only keep his tranquility to a certain extent as to he will seek revenge when his calm is fragmented. Even so, Shakespeare advances the plot as this places punishment on Romeo forcing him out of Verona. The prince proclaims on line 186-187

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder.” Romeo & Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1595. It is known as a love story about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meeting and falling in love immediately. The Montague and Capulet families do not get along, and it was never stated as to why. In Romeo & Juliet there is a lot of violence. Although there were threats and acts of violence, it never solved any problems.

The audience is introduced to Romeo who is crestfallen after hearing the news that

In “Romeo and Juliet”, the theme of violence plays a major role throughout the play. It is very noticeable how the eager love between Romeo and Juliet has significantly impacted the overall violence all through the play. In addition, Romeo and Juliet think that they only can protect their love through death. So, this leads them to think of committing suicide . Also, their willingness to sacrifice not only everything in life but their own lives as to defend their love to each other. As a result , the theme of violence comes up to play a primary reason in the play which affect their love to each other . On the other hand , it is very ironic to the reader how love can turn into hate. For example, the reader can realize how the theme of violence

Not only do the conflicts affects the characters but also the play. The parents have no idea of Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other for the first half of the play. For Romeo and Juliet, to be together was getting married so their parents couldn’t keep them apart but as soon as they do their poor decisions lead to tragic events. Tybalt goes looking for Romeo to fight him for attending the Capulet ball uninvited. Romeo protests that he has good reason to love Tybalt and does not wish to fight him. He asks that until Tybalt knows the reason for this love, he put aside his sword. Mercutio angrily draws his sword and declares with biting wit that if Romeo will not fight Tybalt, he will. ... They fight, and Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt out of anger.

Romeo refuses and Mercutio steps in for the battle, which results in his death so Romeo gets enraged and kills Tybalt. Killing Tybalt gets Romeo banished from Verona. The idea of being separated from Juliet, his love, Romeo wishes to meet in secret with Juliet. On his last night in Verona where he is risking everything to see Juliet, they share the night of love as husband and wife. With the thought of Romeo being away from her, not being able to be with him forever, Juliet has the idea of without Romeo, she will kill herself.