Romeo And Juliet Violence Analysis

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a story of great woe, the children of two rival families fall in love, then through a series of acts of hatred, betrayal, and love, they end their own lives. The play can become quite violent in its endless, descriptive lines as characters do everything to kill one another if they happen to be on the wrong side of the matter. Turn away from those alluring lines and one may find that the outside world is not much prettier than the beaten streets of Verona. In Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, many acts of violence are present emphasizing the presence of it then and today. The play within itself is a bloody mess at times; with rapiers, swords, and daggers bringing death upon many

Barely half-way into the first scene and violence bursts out on Verona’s thoroughfare. The Prince, Escalus, is forced to ride into town to find the source of this conundrum, and finds the culprits once again to be the Capulets and the Montagues; then declares: “By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets and made Verona’s ancient citizens cast by their grave beseeming ornaments to wield old partisans, in hands as old, canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate. If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace” (Shakespeare I. i. 83-90). Through this statement Prince Escalus sheds light on the fact that the family feud has involved more than just themselves. Whether the two families have realized or not, they have single-handedly managed to take the ancient peace of Verona and turn it into a defensive behaviour that forces the citizens to take arms in fear that the two will quarrel in their once peaceful streets. Prince Escalus at the end of the play also makes another statement on how the family’s

As the name given to the attacks suggests, terror attacks are quite terrifying and usually intend to make a show out of the victims of the attacks. Paris in 2015 was no exception to these intentions, as on November 13th terrorists from Syria detonated bombs at a concert hall, football (soccer) stadium, and five restaurants; the result traumatizing the French and European populations and raising concern over more potential attacks from extremist jihadists radicalized by conflicts in the Middle East (Gladstone, Adam Nossiter and Rick). The intended effects of the attack were achieved, as it reverberated across oceans and caused many countries to tighten their security regarding the same fears and concerns. It was able to even reach the United States, since President Obama made a statement following the attacks: “Once again, we’ve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians, This is an attack not just on Paris, it’s an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share” (Gladstone, Adam Nossiter and Rick). In the United States, the attack wasn’t viewed as an attack on just the French community, but as an attack on the entire human race, Likely because the type of attacks executed in Paris and in so many other places around the globe try to instill fear and force human beings to tear down common values each one shares, to put