In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two 15th century families living in Verona, Italy, hold an ancient grudge. Romeo, the only son of the Montagues, and Juliet, the only daughter of the Capulets, fall in love. Due to the feud between their families, the two young lovers end up committing suicide because they cannot be together. Juliet’s feisty cousin, Tybalt, sets off this string of events by picking a fight with Romeo. Romeo and Tybalt’s conflict greatly affects the plot and characters in the play. The fight between the two men represents the bad side of the feud between the two houses. When Romeo attends a ball at the Capulet’s house, Tybalt recognizes him and tries to kick him out. While Lord Capulet lets Romeo stay, Tybalt greatly objects: “It fits, when such a villain is a guest: I’ll endure him” (I, 5). It is obvious that Tybalt hates Romeo and is only dealing with him because he has to or else he will get in trouble. This parallels the relationship between the two houses, they hate each other but must deal with their hatred or else they will get in trouble with the law. Romeo and Tybalt’s conflict is a simile for the …show more content…
fight between the Capulets and the Montagues. Tybalt and Romeo’s conflict reveals a good amount about their personalities as well.
After being married to Juliet, Romeo is confronted by Tybalt. Tybalt tells Romeo that, “The love I bear thee can afford, no better term than this- thou art a villain” (III, 1). Tybalt is saying that Romeo is nothing more than a villain and he should not be called anything else. This shows Tybalt’s angry, defensive personality and how he is always trying to make Romeo look much worse than he is. After Tybalt says this, Romeo responds with: “I do protest, I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise.” Romeo is saying that he never injured Tybalt but insteads loves him more than he can understand, which shows Romeo’s kind and loving nature. The fight between Tybalt and Romeo makes it easier to understand their
personalities. Ironically, Tybalt’s aggressive actions lead to the death of the two lovers but to the return of the peace between the two houses. When Tybalt kills Romeo’s good friend Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt to avenge Mercutio’s death. Romeo must flee Verona, which ruins his and Juliet’s plans. As the Prince of Verona talks about Tybalt’s murder, he says that “for that offence, immediately we do exile him hence” ( III, 1). He explains that Romeo will be banished as a punishment. If Romeo had not killed Tybalt, he would have lived happily with Juliet, but the houses would not have made peace. The conflict between the two enemies greatly affects the plot in both good and bad ways. The play heavily relies on the anger between Romeo and Tybalt. Their meeting at the ball represents the grudge between the enemy houses. Tybalt shows just how strongly he feels about the Montagues when he tries to kick Romeo out. Their opposite personalities are shown through their fight. Romeo is kind and loving, and Tybalt is feisty and agressive. Their fight also greatly affects the plot and the ending of the play. If it were not for Tybalt’s death, Romeo and Juliet might have lived a long, happy life together, but peace between the two families would have been achieved. From this comes one question: does peace have to be achieved through violence?
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two very young people fall in love but cannot be with each other because of the feud in between their families. The feud ends when Romeo and Juliet both kill themselves because of heartbreak over the other. The minor characters Mercutio, Tybalt, and Friar Lawrence serve as foils to Romeo, to help support the theme of patience.
Tybalt is like many other young men his age and is immature. This can be seen in almost every action he makes. One can see his immaturity when he makes impulsive decisions, like when he wrote a letter to Romeo challenging him to a duel. Another immature thing that he does is when he sees a Montague, he automatically sees him/her as a evil villain because of the ancient feud. Tybalt states, “Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,/ A villain that is hither come in spite/ To scorn at our solemnity this night.” (1.5.69-71). He sees Romeo when at the party and instantly abandons any sense maturity or reason and assumes that that man is a villian, not knowing who he is or having any knowledge about him other than his name. His childish behavior can be seen through out
There are two families that hate each other Romeo's family the Montague's and Juliet's family the Capulet's. The families have hated each other for many generations. Romeo and Juliet met at a party even though Lord Capulet has found Juliet a husband but she doesn't like him and falls in love with Romeo who was previously in love with Rosaline. Romeo and Juliet get married in secret hoping in the long run that this deed will end the family feud but Juliet's family don't know about the wedding. Mercutio Romeo's best friend and Tybalt Juliet's cousin get into a fight and Mercutio dies but Romeo turns up and kills Tybalt. Romeo is banished to Mantua for killing Tybalt so Juliet isn't happy because she has lost two of the people she cares about most.
The story takes place in Verona, where they live two families are rivals, the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo, sole heir of the Montagues, coming in uninvited to dance mask Capulet, which meets Juliet, only daughter of the Capulets; both fall in love at first sight. Knowing that their parents never allow their union, they marry in secret, with the help of Friar Laurence. The day of the ceremony, Tybalt insults Romeo, nevertheless the latter refuses to fight. But Mercutio, the best friend of the young Montague, engages death duel with Tybalt. Romeo and Tybalt tries to separate fail to mortally wound Mercutio. Romeo, Tybalt challenges and then avenges his friend killing his adversary. The Prince of Verona, outraged by the events, Romeo sentence
The Significance of Tybalt’s Role in the Play Romeo and Juliet In this essay, I will be discussing the role of Tybalt in Shakespeare. play Romeo and Juliet to see whether he is a catalyst for tragedy. I intend to look at the significance of Tybalt's. involvement in the events leading up to the suicides of the star.
Tybalt in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Tybalt, the nephew of Capulet's wife (hence Juliet's cousin) is very close to the Capulet family and will therefore do anything to protect the family pride. Tybalt thinks that the Montagues are the canker of Verona ; he deems their mere presence in Capulet company to be a personal insult on the latter's family 'honour and stock' (he paranoically assumes that Romeo's attendance of the Capulet's masked ball is solely 'to fleer and scorn at our solemnity'). Tybalt is the only young Capulet male that is fully acknowledged by the audience through dialogue (Petruchio says one line in Act 3, Scene 1 and is only mentioned once before in Act 1, Scene 5). He is the main Capulet blood relation that is actively involved in the family feud.
As already shown, both Romeo and Juliet are horrified to discover that they were family enemies. Despite of this, they both choose to devote their love for eachother. Given this point, it is unrequited love that brings Romeo and Juliet together. But this also means that they would have to get over the fact that their families hate each other. This eventually leads them to forgiving the rival family for all the hateful acts that have occurred against one another. This is not the only forgiveness that is experienced in this play. Tybalt is a Montague with a fiery attitude. After catching Romeo at a party he was not supposed to be at, Tybalt had it out for Romeo. Just after Romeo and Juliet’s wedding, Tybalt comes looking for him wanting to fight. Romeo does not want to fight because he now loves Tybalt since he is family to him, but neither Tybalt or anyone else knows this reason. Quickly Mercutio steps in and tells Tybalt that he will fight him in honour of Romeo. Sadly this leads to the death of Mercutio. Romeo is angry and in need of revenge, which creates an intense fight between Tybalt and Romeo. Romeo wins this battle, killing Tybalt. He leaves in a hurry, only to discover that he would be banished from Verona. The death of Tybalt is absolutely devastating to Juliet. Her cousin was murdered by her husband. But she did not hesitate to forgive Romeo, she did so right away. She knew that Romeo had a reason for this incident and decides to
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, is set in Verona where two families, Montague and Capulet, have a long feud between them. This conflict causes a dilemma for the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet that are secretly married, and they take their lives to be together. Romeo, a Montague, is a teenage boy that in the beginning of the play, loves Rosaline and he is depressed because she doesn’t love him back. After talking to Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, he goes to a Capulet’s party and falls in love with the daughter of Lord Capulet, Juliet, and they secretly get married. By the end of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo’s quality of being naïve and kills himself after him being heartbroken over Juliet’s supposed death. His quality
Who would have thought that their own family could be responsible for their death? In William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet”, a horrible crime was committed between two lost souls who were never meant to meet, their lives came to an end and there’s only one to blame for these two murders.Although he did not physically kill Romeo or Juliet, Tybalt is the one to blame for their deaths. Many may argue that others are to blame, but Tybalt has caused the most damage, ruined everything, and led the couple to their suicides. These deaths, although horrific, will bring two fighting families together and bring peace back to their lives.
In conclusion, the irony is that their love, and death, was able to do what their lives could not, to end the feuding between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. It is with this thought that I shall examine “the thin line between love and hate” which is evidently shown on many occasions, such as when Romeo uses his love for Juliet to remove his hate for Tybalt “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage” and also the play itself is evident of this, Romeo and Juliet’s love was so strong for each other, that they were able to overcome hate and also the hate that others possessed towards each other.
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.
	A major dispute is going on between the Capulets and the Montagues. These two households, "both alike in dignity," (1.Prologue.1) have been feuding for so long that they even forget the reason they are feuding. Romeo and Juliet, "a pair of star-crossed lovers who take their life," (1.Prologue.6) are results of how tragedy can be caused when the rage of past generations carries over to a younger generation. Tybalt is also an example of the theme. At Capulet's party, he walks up to Lord Capulet and says "Tis he, that villain Romeo" (1.5.67). Tybalt learns this rage toward Romeo and all the other Montagues through past generations.
People of Verona are shocked and yet still furious caused by the family feud of the Montague and Capulets. At Verona 1300s, Benvolio and Mercutio (both in the Montague party) were on the streets until Tybalt(In the Capulet party) showed up angry. What Benvolio has described he was looking for Romeo with anger. When Romeo arrived on the scene, Tybalt was looking for fight but Romeo wasn't in the mood for it. Tybalt quickly withdraws his sword and hell was unleashed.
“This by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave” ( I.v.line 52-54). “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a tragedy that occurs to innocent characters who have not done anything wrong. In the play, the character that strongly opposes Romeo and the Montagues is Tybalt. Tybalt is Mr. Capulet’s nephew and Juliet’s older cousin. Tybalt plays an important role in Romeo and Juliet because of his aggressive, cocky, and self-centered personality leads to many catastrophes in the play.
The familial bonds between the family members in both families – Montague and Capulet – are portrayed as faithful and deep. Throughout the play, there are many situations where the younger members of the family are entering in fights against each other, mostly to protect the family’s pride and dignity. Referring to the Shakespeare’s play, an example of familial love is shown in the scene where Tybalt catches sight of Romeo and straightaway looks for the Capulet and tries to protect the family by punishing Romeo for entering the Capulet’s household. This is pointed out when Tybalt states that Romeo is the Capulet’s disrespectful enemy and that he came to ruin the Capulet’s party. His uncle, Lord Capulet, beliefs that Romeo can’t harm their family as he didn’t participate in the Verona’s fight and shows anger to Tybalt. In this situation, from Tybalt’s side, the type of love is represented as protecting the family’s respect and the Lord Capulet’s pride. However, it turns out to be a conflict between Tybalt and Lord Capulet. As expressed in the play, Tybalt always naturally takes revenge and acts violently and