William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet shows how the story of true love can break the ancient grudge between two families. The conflict in the story is Capulets against Montagues. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (1.Prologue.1-4). The grudge between the two families led to fighting and even death.

SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

Feeling guilty, Romeo feels responsible for Mercutio’s dying because as Mercutio is about to die, he blames Romeo for his loss. Trying to redeem himself he kills Tybalt in vengeance for Mercutio. Afterwards, the Prince banishes Romeo from Verona for the murder of Tybalt. Romeo kills Tybalt on impulse and does not think about the consequences and acts before he thinks. Romeo does not think at all when he kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt. Romeo’s banishing is one of the most

Within every tragic ending, lies at least one or more accomplice. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, many things happen that involve many different people, so it could be hard to pinpoint one person to blame for the deaths of the two young lovers Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, Benvolio, and the Capulet and Montague ancestors are to blame. Romeo is to blame because he acts rashly and does not think things through. Benvolio is at fault because he encourages Romeo to go to a Capulet party where he meets the love of his life. Romeo and Juliet's ancestors are also to blame because they created the feud that resulted in the lover’s tragic end. With so many people playing a part in the relationship, putting the blame on one person is difficult.

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.

Mercutio, similar to Tybalt is a fiery combatant, onry, and quick to fight. However, Romeo’s own actions to stop the duel between Mercutio and Tybalt would result in Mercutio motivating Romeo’s rage. Without Mercutio’s desire to battle Tybalt, Romeo never would have discovered his vengeful side. On page 868 of Prentice Hall’s Literature, Volume Two, lines 107-113, Romeo realizes his actions, “This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally, My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt In my behalf-my reputation stained With Tybalt’s slander-Tybalt, that an hour Hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet, Thy beauty hath made me effeminate And in my temper soft’ned valor’s steel!” This shows the boiling anger building within Romeo, ultimately brought on by himself and

This demonstrates the needless sacrifice of Mercutio from Tybalt’s hatred. Another character that develops this theme is Romeo. Shakespeare states that after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo becomes enraged in hatred and when Tybalt returns, Romeo forgets that Tybalt is his cousin-in-law and fights Tybalt and eventually kills him. Romeo says, “Away to heaven, respective lenity, and editorial fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. Now, Tybalt, take the “villain” back again that late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company.

While the fight is mainly between the Montagues and Capulets, Mercutio also has his part. While Tybalt is looking for Romeo, Mercutio continues to mock him and even draws his sword on Tybalt. “Come on, sir, perform your forward

Tybalt’s death is Mercutio’s fault because he did not listen to Benvolio, he insisted on fighting when Romeo backed down, and he drew his sword first. Mercutio was overall a pretty good person who was loyal to his friends, but he was also a hot head thinking that he can just fight everybody. He had a temper and was easily angered.Mercutio made stupid mistakes that led him to not only his own death, but Tybalt’s as

“Unbridled passion is to blame for the deaths of the young lovers”. To what extent is that statement true? Discuss your response in relation to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, he made it clear that this play is very much so not a comedy, but a tragedy. In this essay, I will state who or what are responsible for the initial death of Romeo and Juliet. There are definitely several people that could be blamed for the deaths of these two young people. Mercutio can be blamed, to some degree. He was the one who got Romeo to go to the ball, and the one with the foolish behaviour that was bound to have something bad happen because of it.

Mercutio hears that Tybalt wants to fight Romeo and seems to insult his best friend, but he feels like Romeo is not “man enough to encounter Tybalt” (91). He says this because he thinks that the only conflict Romeo knows and can respond to is limited to love. Because the book of Romeo and Juliet is centered on the Montague and Capulet’s, we do not know Mercutio’s world or family, and that leads us to wonder why he would ever endanger his life for a world that is not even his own. By taking Tybalt’s challenge it shows how Mercutio is courageous, loyal, and truthfully

187-197). This quote shows the strongest impact that Mercutio played in this play. He accepted the fight with Tybalt, died, caused Romeo to fight Tybalt which ended with Tybalt’s death and now has Romeo exiled from Verona. Without this fight happening, Romeo would not have been exiled from Verona, Juliet would not have needed to fake a death, Romeo would not

Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend and kinsman to the prince of Verona. Although he is best friend to Romeo, he is one of the three men responsible for the tragic end of this story. In act three, scene 1: A Public Square, Tybalt has challenged Romeo to a fight. Romeo, who just married Juliet, tried to maintain

Through Capulet, Shakespeare challenges the sixteenth century tradition of girls being married at a young age, condemning the violence of this structure. In Elizabethan England, girls as young as ten were wed as a means of securing their future with a wealthy partner. In the passage, Capulet rejects this life for Juliet. Firstly, he highlights that her youth means Juliet is “a stranger in the world”; Shakespeare follows this scene with the Nurse’s description of Juliet’s youth in Act 1, Scene 3, reinforcing the innocence Capulet sees in his daughter, not yet “ripe” for marriage. Indeed, the connotations of this descriptor frame the notion of waiting for Juliet to age as holding/creating a sense of beauty, otherwise destroyed by early marriage}. Further, Capulet’s conclusion that young brides are “too soon marr’d” by childbirth emphasises that his denial comes from a desire to protect; as the usual argument for early marriage is the protection of women, this notion that it in fact creates such violence is especially challenging to the audience’s usual perception of the issue. As such, Shakespeare highlights the dangers that come from the marital tradition of young brides. Further, the playwright contrasts this challenge by using Paris – a character given far more presence in Shakespeare’s play than in previous renditions of the Romeo and Juliet narrative – as the embodiment of the more traditional view; he introduces his “suit” to Juliet to the discourse of the passage and