Violence In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The next day, Benvolio and Romeo have an encounter with Tybalt, who is still out to get Romeo for crashing the Capulet’s party. When Romeo refuses to duel with Tybalt, Mercutio steps in and accepts the duel. This duel, however, ultimately led to the killing of Mercutio by Tybalt. Out of guilt for Mercutio, Romeo attacks Tybalt killing him.

First of all, Tybalt was responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because Tybalt killed Mercutio, that evoked Romeo to kill Tybalt. With the killing of Tybalt, Romeo was banished to Mantua. In scene II of the play, Tybalt and Mercutio fought. Tybalt was fighting because Romeo crashed the Capulet’s party along with Benvolio, and Mercutio was fighting for the sake of Romeo’s honor. Tybalt

. Firstly, Tybalt is to blame for Mercutio’s death as he actually gave him the wound that killed him. Also, Tybalt provokes Mercutio by insulting Romeo, ‘Thou art a villain.’ This is one of the biggest insults that Tybalt can give and would usually be followed by a duel. However, Romeo calmly replies by saying ‘Villain I am none / Therefore farewell. I see thou know’st me not.’ Because Romeo is not defending his honour, Mercutio is provoked by Tybalt’s insults and starts insulting Tybalt himself. This is what leads to the two of them fighting and Mercutio getting his fatal wound. So, if Tybalt didn’t insult Romeo or fight Mercutio, Mercutio wouldn’t have been killed.

After a fight breaks out on the streets between the Capulets and the Montagues the prince steps in and tries to stop it.The prince shouts, “If ever you disturb our streets again/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace” (Shakespeare 17). The prince had enough with their fighting.He said if they ever got caught fighting on the streets they would all die. The next time a fight breaks out on the streets Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm after Romeo tried to stop the fight..Romeo later goes on to kill Tybalt. All in all, Mercutio and Tybalt's death are heart breaking deaths that are foreshadowed more than once throughout the

In contrast, Mercutio attempts to stop Tybalt’s thirst for vengeance when he tries to duel Romeo but ultimately gets killed in the process of trying to save his good friend from being killed by Tybalt which causes Romeo to take vengeance upon Tybalt by killing him.

As he steps in between the two fighters, Tybalt seizes the opportunity, and with one swift move, stabs Mercutio. So, while Tybalt takes the physical action of stabbing Mercutio, leading to his off-stage death, Romeo is the catalyst. Without Romeo’s involvement, by his actions, Mercutio’s death at the hands of Tybalt would not have occurred.

In Act 3, Mercutio and Benvolio are out walking in Verona. Benvolio asks Mercutio to go inside before an incident like before happens again with the Capulet. Mercutio tells him to stop criticizing others and that not all Capulet are going to want to start a fight. Tybalt then enters the scene. Tybalt approaches the two Montague men and asks to speak with one of them. Mercutio, not very happy with Tybalt speaking to them, starts to mess with him. Romeo enters next. Tybalt starts talking to Romeo and calls him a villain. Romeo tries to keep peace with Tybalt as he asks Romeo to draw his sword. Mercutio decides to fight Tybalt since Romeo does not want to. The two men fight. Romeo interferes and tries to stop the fight. In doing so, Tybalt was able to get under Romeo’s arm and stab Mercutio, killing him. Before passing, Mercutio curses both families and Tybalt runs off. Romeo wants revenge on Tybalt. When Tybalt comes back, Romeo draws his sword and the two of them fight. Romeo ends up killing Tybalt and Benvolio tells him to leave the scene before many people start to notice. The prince enters the scene. Benvolio explains what happened. He also explains that Romeo was trying to keep peace, but Lady Capulet thinks he is lying. Prince decides to exile Romeo from Verona instead of giving death as a punishment.

Of all the things that occur in Romeo and Juliet, the death of Tybalt is one of the most climatic parts of the story. Yet, this all started from another killing of a different person, Mercutio. Mercutio, a relative of the Prince and friend of Romeo, and Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet and Mercutio’s arch enemy, were in a heated conversion when Romeo walked in after getting married to Juliet and saw what was going on. Tybalt and Mercutio began to fight and Romeo tried to come in between them to stop the whole thing. Unfortunately, as Tybalt was under Romeo’s arms, he stabbed Mercutio and he died soon after. In all the rage, Romeo was furious that his friend was dead and starts to fight with Tybalt.

Tybalt surprisingly stabbed Mercutio under Romeo's arm and it, unfortunately, killed him. ¨Help me into some house, Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague o´ both your houses! They have made worms´ meat of me. I have it, And soundly too. Your houses!¨ (3.1.104-107). These were Mercutio's final words before he died. This was his way of cursing both the Capulet and Montague families because of what had happened. If there was no feud between the two families from the start there would have been piece for Verona, for the families. They all would've gotten along and there wouldn't have been so much hate coming from Tybalt to cause him to kill Mercutio.

Tybalt has now killed the Prince’s family and Romeo’s best friend. Leaving Romeo the deserving revenge. Leading straight into the next part, with Romeo so enraged, he agrees to fight Tybalt. This make Tybalt almost happy that he get his victory against Romeo. Full of enmity Romeo cries out, “Alive in triumph-and Mercutio slain!/ Away to heaven, respective lenity,/

After finding out that Mercutio had died, Romeo decided to take matters into his own hands. Romeo stabbed Tybalt, and he died. This of course is why Prince Escalus banned Romeo from Verona, which caused another death shortly after.

In the play, Romeo is irrational and accountable for some of the deaths. Romeo does not want to fight Tybalt and so Mercutio dies, while Romeo tries to break up the fight. Romeo kills Tybalt then when there was no need for death. “I do protest

Even though Tybalt, who came from the Capulets, was the one who killed Mercutio, both families were responsible for the death. Mercutio’s last words portray that his death was Romeo’s fault, as much as Tybalt’s fault, for closing the gap between the two rival families. In Act 3 Scene 1, Tybalt called Romeo a villain, “No better term than this: thou art a villain” (3.1.57.) During that time, being called a villain was a terrible insult which could have started a fight. Romeo decided to ignore this comment, from Tybalt because of his relationship with Juliet. Mercutio on the other hand

But Romeo originally didn’t want to lay a figure on Tybalt, but Tybalt killed his best friend, leaving Romeo with no choice but to avenge Mercutio. This feud was bad for everyone of Verona, including those not a member of either family, like Mercutio. Even on his deathbed Mercutio said, “I am hurt. A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.

The Capulets and the Montague once again had a feud yesterday at noon. Unfortunately this one left the residents of Verona at shock and grieve when they found out about the death of Tybalt Capulet, Lord capulet’s nephew, and Mercutio Escalus, prince’s kinsmen. Along with the deaths Romeo Montague was charged and exiled from the city of Verona. Witnesses, who were present at the crime scene have stated that Tybalt had challenged Romeo to a street brawl because he was at the Capulet's mask party. When the young Romeo refused the brawl, Tybalt started harassing him. Mercutio, a good friend of Romeo had enough with Tybalt and took Romeo’s place of fighting. The brawl ensured Mercutio’s death from being slained. Romeo was enraged with what had happened to his best friend. He fought Tybalt and killed him in the brawl.