A wise man once said, “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” This quote means that if you try to get revenge for actions that happened to you, than that will just cause greater conflicts. The wise man that said this quote was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This is similar to Romeo and Juliet in the face that the families feud only lead to violence. This violence killed many people and pulled the families farther apart. Ultimately, violence does not solve problems because it only leads to a greater amount of difficulties.
The first example that supports the fact that violence does not solve problems is when Tybalt kills Mercutio in the play Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt killing Mercutio only led to worse problems. Tybalt did not have to kill Mercutio, but he did. This only led to worse problems such as Tybalt’s death and the duration of the feud getting extended. Another example that supports that violence does not solve problems is when Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo killing Tybalt was a direct result of Tybalt killing Mercutio. This left Romeo as a murderer, which was horrible. This hurt Romeo more than it helped him. This event led to Romeo being banished from Verona. He was more likely to get in trouble because he killed Tybalt. A third example is when Romeo gets banished from Verona by the Prince for killing Tybalt. This caused Romeo to be farther away from his wife, Juliet. This also caused his mother, Lady Montague, to die of grief. The example previously mentioned made it harder for Romeo and Juliet to be a couple. Violence and killing led Romeo to be banished from Verona and be sent to Mantua, far away from Juliet. Violence does not solve problems because it causes new problems. Tybalt killing Mercutio ...
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...violence does solve the problem, than too much violence has occurred. Violence does not solve problems in real life either. It might be a temporary solution on a more permanent problem. Violence can also lead to horrible consequences instead of solving problems. As the brilliant Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.”
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
In the Shakespearean play, Romeo & Juliet, aggression is represented in different ways by the different characters in the play. Tybalt, Romeo, Benvolio, and the others all have their own way of dealing with hate and anger. Some do nothing but hate while others can’t stand to see even the smallest of quarrels take place.
violence show how evil a human can may be. According to Tiger Knowles in Nightriding with
Conflict has many different meanings for both physical and verbal abuse. Conflict could be a viscous feud or a full on physical fight. These days in television soap dramas we intend to see more verbal conflict than physical violence. But over the last couple of years new television programmes have been released which contains a lot of action-packed fighting and physical conflict of some kind. Some programmes include physical and verbal conflict including, “Eastenders”, “The Bill” and other programmes similar to these. The releasing of films such as, “Indiana Jones”, and “Rambo” catches the audience’s attention by involving action-packed, exciting features such as heavy arguments or thrilling battles. Some films are made to include action and excitement but when audiences watch it they cannot help feeling sorry for the victim or just generally sad for the people having the fight. In the same way Romeo and Juliet presents conflict more intense than most soap dramas. When the play was first performed in “The Theatre”, in Shoreditch in the mid 1590’s, the Elizabethan audience was shocked at how Juliet disobeyed her father and also how Romeo and Juliet disobeyed their families. Sympathy must be felt for the audience because they would have never known the idea of a son or daughter disobeying their father. The law at that time stated that the daughter was the property of her father until the daughter got married then her husband “owned” her as property. From this sympathy must be felt for Juliet because she is a victim of arranged marriages. When the play was first performed it got massive great responses which then lead to the play being transferred to The Globe theatre at the start of the 1600’s. Props and different costumes helped ...
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;” (Shakespeare, 536). In the book, ‘Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare there is a deeper meaning that Shakespeare is trying to portray other than parents cannot control their children’s hearts. He is trying to portray that a name is only a name and it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things and that even with a different name that person will still be the same person they have always been. Shakespeare is using the characters: Juliet, Romeo, Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the Nurse to get this message across to the reader or the viewer.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton proves the point that violence can be justified if necessary. To inflict change in their lives people often fight with violence instead of peace to evoke change. The world strives for change everyday whether or not you like it. How the people create a change in society whether they use peace or war, it is up to them to decide how to modify our ever changing world. Violence and fight between the Socs and Greasers tells us that both can be justified if it inflicts positive change in society. ‘
“Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate.
Girls were seen as the property of their fathers – to be given away to
Violence in all of its manifestations is based on an exercise of power. It represents a means to gain power, to maintain power, or as a response to a threat to one's power. As long as a society maintains the legitimacy of social hierarchies, of the right of some people to have power over others, there will be violence. One can either seek to diffuse the concentration of power or to control violence. By its very character, the attempt to control violence is self-defeating. The control will itself become violent.
violence is the only way to solve things, and it is not.People need to talk
How are modern day gangs compared to Shakespeare’s book, “Romeo and Juliet?” Romeo and Juliet is based on a play and gang violence can be based on a play, a real life story, or reality. Today, I will be comparing modern day gang violence in California to the family feud in Romeo and Juliet. The purpose for writing this essay is to inform readers on how family issues can be considered as gang related issues.
In Shakespeare’s play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” males make a more dramatic impact because they are the most violent in the story than the woman. Because of how the males act, there is a lot of fighting and arguing going on.
Violence is never the answer, this really shows throughout A Long Way Gone. In the story A Long Way Gone, violence is a main aspect that makes the story all come together. The title of this novel is called A Long Way Gone, it was written by Ishmael Beah, This story is about Ishmael Beah being taken to war at a young age, when he is in the war he meets many people, some of them including, Talloi, Gibrilla, Kaloko, and Khalilou. Throughout A Long Way Gone the boys are given lots of drugs and guns, and have been given strict command to kill the rebels. He joined the UNICEF program and was able to find his uncle whom he lived with and was able to escape drugs and the war. The three effects that violence has made on Ishmael are, revenge is an ongoing cycle, violence can cost people their lives, violence can turn a whole-hearted person into a cold bitter soul. In A Long Way Gone, revenge has been proven to be a big part in this story and has shown to be very unsatisfying.
some person violence but reject war as always wrong. Mohandas K. Gandhi believed in the
until one person gets killed. In those days if you said no to a duel,