How Shakespeare Presents Love and the Problems of Love in Romeo and Juliet

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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

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