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Violence and Conflict in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
"Romeo and Juliet" is a tragic play, which is about love, romance,
relationships, families and violence. Although it is manly about love,
there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict.
The play opens with a fight and ends with a reconciliation. The
violence in the play happens because of an antiquated disagreement
between two families, which leads to the tragic deaths of Romeo and
Juliet.
In this essay I will discuss the theme of violence and conflict in the
scenes Act 1 scene 1, Act 3 Scene 1 and Act 3 Scene 5.
"Romeo and Juliet" was written by William Shakespeare and first
performed in 1599. It is set in the 16th century. When Shakespeare
wrote the play, Queen Elizabeth 1 ruled England. She loved the
theatre. People in the 16th century were fond of any sort of
entertainment. They liked watching bear-bating, public executions and
cock fighting. It was important for Shakespeare to make his play as
exciting as possible, because living was very difficult for people.
Also they were poor and uneducated. An audience in the 16th century
would have liked "Romeo and Juliet" because it contains love, romance,
elaborate parties and theatrical fighting.
Act 1 scene 1 is a very significant scene, because this scene is the
beginning of the play. Also it contains the opening fighting scene, in
which an argument between the family members takes place.
The fight consists between to rival families, the CAPULET and the
MONTAGUES. The fight is between different members of the families. The
people who were involved were Samson, Tybalt and Gregory (CAPULET) and
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...to Juliet.
He got to her and he was happy to see her again and so was she. They
were both happy together. Romeo had to leave because the nurse saw
Juliet wasn't in her room. Just in case the nurse had seen Romeo and
Juliet together, Juliet told Romeo to leave.
My favourite scene from the play was Act 3, Scene 1 which was the
scene where Mercutio and Tybalt are killed.
This is my favourite scene because I was excited, what was going to
happen to Mercutio, Romeo and Tybalt. This is also my favourite scene
because it was a lot more exciting and entertaining than all the other
scenes.
But, I wasn't too excited because I all ready knew what was going to
happen to Mercutio and Tybalt. I knew this because I already went over
the play in class. So I wasn't too surprised what had happened to
Mercutio and Tybalt.
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.
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 ...
Sometimes when people are amongst conflict, they act impetuously in certain situations. In the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, careless actions take place by the characters when they are put into stressful and difficult situations. They are not thought through and result in consequences for more than just themselves. In Romeo and Juliet when in the midst of conflict, characters tend to think and act impulsively and not think of the reaction to their actions. They do not think of the consequences their actions may bring, or how they may affect others in the future.
Shakespeare's Use of Violence and Conflict in Romeo and Juliet in Act 3 Scene 1
dead. A letter was sent out to Romeo telling him of the plan, but he
...or herself. She had just confined to what he wanted to hear and see since she smiled at him while saying this. She could have realized that he took his time coming back and gave up her desperate attempts to keep them together and given up hope that he will be there after the procedure is done.
Romeo And Juliet, alongside Hamlet, is probably Shakespeare’s most performed play and has also been adapted in many forms. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet killed themselves due to the conflicts between the Capulets and the Montagues, Romeo and Juliet’s families. Regardless of the differences in reactions regarding the conflict between the two families, both Romeo and Tybalt are characters that act before they think, causing an unfortunate effect on the tragedy of the play.
Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet, one of the main protagonists, Juliet, is forced to deal with a great amount of conflict, whether it is external conflict or internal. Juliet has conflict with many people excluding herself, such as with her father and mother, with the Nurse… Equally, she is conflicted on the inside on many occasions.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. It tells the tale of two lovers from rival households and the tragic journey that leads to their destruction. The play shows all the events over the course of four days in Romeo and Juliet’s home town of Verona. Monday through Thursday is all we have to see of the Montague and Capulet families to acknowledge their hatred for each other. The play shows the struggle of Romeo and Juliet in their efforts to stop the hatred between their families and live happily ever after. But despite their efforts, they end up digging their own graves, showing how different actions have different consequences.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare incorporates the theme of conflict through many different characters and situations. The definition of conflict is “a fight, battle, or struggle; especially a prolonged struggle; strife” The play mainly focuses on the tragic lives of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet; the two characters belong to the Montague and Capulet households respectively, which have held ongoing grudges against each other for years. The play ends with both main characters committing suicide, to be together in heaven. As with many of Shakespeare’s works, the theme of conflict is a strong one. For a start, there is the ongoing conflict between the two families; the Montagues and the Capulets. The audience is unsure how this grudge started; this reflects how tedious some ongoing grudges can be. This is a vital conflict to keep the structure of the story, as without this conflict Romeo and Juliet would not have encountered the problems they had with their marriage. However, there are different ways of putting this grudge across - through dialogue, such as Mercutio’s intell...
one another, they realized that they would need to interact if they were to be able to get
her to "take a ride" with him in his car. She had seen this man the night before staring at her in the
Argumentative behavior and hostility can force people to take undesired actions and change their morals. In Romeo and Juliet, many characters experience the rapid moral change in themselves after a fight starts between the Montagues and the Capulets resulting in them only able to follow orders since they sided with a family. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet delves into the duality that conflict can be damaging and altering in one’s mind as a consequence of Sampson and the Montague guards, Romeo and Juliet, and the Montagues and the Capulets.
until one person gets killed. In those days if you said no to a duel,
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the time of Elizabeth I. Romeo & Juliet is one of his most famous plays and has always been extremely popular in mainstream and in contemporary media, mainly because the ideals and issues brought up in the play are still very valid in modern times. The play revolves around the, aptly named, Romeo & Juliet and their forbidden love and their struggle to love one another with each others families, Capulets and Montagues, feuding with each other, underneath the romanticism it is a story of a plan going wrong. I am going to analyse and interpret how two very contrasting things; love and violence relate to each other in the play, the effect they have on the characters and the events that unfold.