Violence And Death In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Violence and Death in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Though many of his plays, Shakespeare includes plenty of death and violence to create conflict and drama. Constantly death and violence is added to the story to create conflict between the Montague and Capulet families. Violence also helps to set up drama for the story and between the characters. The families have a lot of tension between them, and violence only fuels the flame. With adding tension between the families also add tension to the entire play, and other character involved. For example the play even starts out with a fight between the families. This is used to introduce the drama of the play, and present the conflict between the families. The overall feel of the

Juliet and Romeo’s constant remarks of committing suicide if they cannot be together shows the love between the characters. To them death is better than not being together. I believe that Juliet faking her death and being put in the tomb is foreshadowing to future events. The plan involves Juliet dying, even though she is not actually dead, and being put in a tomb, this tomb will eventually be the site of her actual death. Romeo hearing that Juliet is dead buys poison to kill himself, this adds drama and tension because we as the viewers know that Juliet is not actually dead. Once reaching the tomb, Romeo kills Paris, which I believe shows Romeo’s feeling that is that he is really set on killing himself and doesn’t really care that he killed Paris because he knows that he will soon be dead. Romeo killing himself is in a way dramatic irony, because he killed himself because Juliet is dead but we know she is not actually dead. Drama is heavily shown as Juliet wakes up and kills herself because Romeo is dead, showing they followed through with their statements. Since both main characters are dead the story is wrapped up. Knowing of the couple's secret marriages, the families finally stop fighting after seeing the death toll it has