William Shakespeare's Use of Conflict in Act 1 Scence 5 of Romeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare's Use of Conflict in Act 1 Scence 5 of Romeo and Juliet

I believe conflict has a number of different meanings, like a fight or

perhaps a feud or maybe even just an everyday argument. But also it

could be referred to as a clash, not as a physical clash but a clash

of two different things completely opposite coming together. An

example of this is black and white clashing together completely

opposite colours.

In Romeo and Juliet act 1 scene 5 the first part of conflict is

between Romeo and Juliet themselves when she is dancing with another

man. This is conflict because Romeo still doesn`t know she is a

capulet, but has taken an immediate liking to her and has to get past

this man first. This part is when Romeo says "what lady`s which doth

enrich the hand of yonder knight". This is his first sight of Juliet

and he is probably thinking, who is this man dancing with this girl.

This scene is also ironic because Juliet was supposed to get set up

with Paris but got set up with Romeo. The body language to help this

is he would probably be staring at Juliet but maybe then showing a bit

of jealousness towards the man dancing with her. This type of conflict

is called inner conflict and gives the effect to the audience that he

is starting to really like this girl he has seen at first site. This

is used here by Shakespeare to show the feelings of love and

disgruntlement.

The next part of conflict is between Romeo and Rosaline, when he

thought he loved Rosaline but was realising that he is starting to

show greater signs of affection towards Juliet. This is supported by

when he said, "did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I

ne`er saw true beauty till this night". In this part he is saying that

he thought he loved Rosaline but at first sight he has never seen

anybody as beautiful as Juliet. The body language here is that he

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