How Shakespeare Presents Love and the Problems of Love in Romeo and Juliet
With particular focus on act 1 scene 5 and act 2 scene 2, show how
Shakespeare presents love and the problems of love in Romeo and
Juliet.
In the book Romeo and Juliet we look at the love and passion between
Romeo of the Montague house and Juliet of the Capulet house as well as
the feud between the two houses.
Act 1 scene 1: in act 1 scene 1 we see servants of the Capulet house
and Montague house quarrel in this instance the feud is introduced as
well as demonstrated. Shakespeare tries to help the audience to
understand the complicity of the feud as it later causes numerous
deaths. Later on in the scene Benvolio comes in and tries to keep the
peace as he says “part fools! Put up your swords; you know not what
you do” and at saying this he beats down there swords which shows us
that Benvolio doesn’t want to start a brawl between the two houses but
then Tybalt comes in and starts to provoke Benvolio and the servants
and when Benvolio starts talking of putting away there swords and
parting Tybalt replies “what! Drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the
word, as I hate hell, all Montague’s, and thee. Have at thee coward!”
which proves to us that Tybalt is more committed to the feud then
Benvolio and the Montague’s.
Act 1 scene 5: in this act we look at how Romeo goes to the great
feast in the household of the Capulet’s. We first look at how the
servants are in a scurry to get everything right for the masked ball.
Then Tybalt recognizes Romeo and wants to again uphold the feud saying
“uncle, this is a Montague, our foe. A villain that is hither come in
spite to scorn at our solemnity this night” which proves to us again
the problem that Romeo and Juliet are going to have later on in the
story because of this feud. After Tybalt is calmed down Romeo for the
When asked by Benvolio to make peace in the streets, Tybalt bluntly responds,” talk of peace, I hate the word. As I hate hell all Montagues.” This is the attitude of Tybalt throughout the play. He believes he is doing all for the best and uses violence as his tool. He gets angry at the ball with Romeo being there, “villain as a guest,” and believes it best to defend his family’s honor by later taking revenge. When Tybalt finds Romeo, he thinks it best to fight him and when he ends up killing Mercutio he believes he has done his duty by causing Romeo the same hurt he has brought Tybalt, “the injuries that thou hast done me.”
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