Tybalt’s monstrous behaviour in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet fuels the feuding families’ hate and consequently results in the deaths of the doomed lovers. His violent dispositions, fierce devotion to the Capulets and irrational behaviour all contribute to the final fatalities of the hero and heroine.
Tybalt's violence leads to chaos in between the two bickering families. Tybalt is to blame for their deaths as his violent tendencies had chain reactions. Tybalt's hatred for the Montagues is strong as he feels like they are a threat to the Capulets. After Benvolio tries to calm Tybalt in act 1 scene 1, he makes it clear that he hates "peace! [And] all Montagues". Furthermore, Tybalt quickly notices Romeo through his disguise at the party and is easily enraged by his presence. He immediately wanted his page to "fetch [his] rapier" and made it clear that "to strike him dead, [he] hold it not a sin". If not forbidden by his uncle, Tybalt would have killed Romeo. With his lust for revenge unsatisfied, Tybalt sets out to challenge Romeo to a duel, revealing his vengeful nature and
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Tybalt is very protective and loyal to the Capulets, willing to go to great lengths to fulfil his duties. In act 1 scene 1, Tybalt came into the fight sword swinging, ready to challenge anyone who dares to "scorn at [his] solemnity". He is also willing to lose his own life because of his loyalty to the household. In act 3 scene 1, his role as kinsman to the Capulets is proven as he wants to fight Romeo because of the "harm [he'd] done". This gives him desire to defend their name and honour by being ready to cut down anyone who had threatened the Capulets. However, Tybalt’s loyalty was too confronting and untimely led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet as he continually wanted to defend the Capulets and thus created violence. Tybalt's excessive loyalty was a contributing factor for the death of Romeo and
Tybalt is a very vengeful character. When tybalt and Mercutio fight, Mercutio gets stabbed and dies which will cause Romeo go crazy. “Why the devil come you between us? I was hurt under your arm.”(3.1.70) with these words, Romeo feels guilty about his best friend's death, that was mainly caused because Romeo denied fighting Tybalt.
In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt was the enforcer of the story and always tried to stir up more chaos in the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. An example of this can be found in Act 1, when the Capulet’s party is going on, when Tybalt senses Romeo, he ends up getting very defensive and angry, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague, / Fetch me my rapier, boy. . . Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, / To strike him dead I hold it not a sin” (5.52-57). Tybalt’s quick and unthoughtful actions make him a hot-headed character who is very easy to dislike. With Tybalt’s previous actions, the story leaned toward the idea that he was going to cause a damaging and lethal event to happen, which he indeed did. After spotting Romeo at the Capulet party, Tybalt felt disrespected and was livid, due to this, he challenged Romeo to a duel. When they both meet up on the street, Romeo attempts to make peace with Tybalt and to end all disagreements between the two. However, Tybalt is there to cause drama and he declines, stating that Romeo’s request “shall not excuse the injuries / that thou hast done to me” (3.1.61-62). Tybalt’s rejection of Romeo’s request led to his own death as well as Mercutio’s. Another consequence of these actions was Romeo’s banishment from Verona, which ended up
Tybalt is a Round, Static and Minor character. He is Juliet's cousin and the niece of Lady Capulet. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is very aggressive and violent. At the beginning of the play Tybalt threatens to bash Romeo’s skull when he sees him at the Capulet’s masked ball but decides to wait for the reason that his Uncle, Lord Capulet, doesn't want to cause a scene, “ I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet, convert to
Tybalt isn’t most responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he didn’t know about Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, but Friar Laurence did, and he did more than Tybalt to cause their deaths. “Hold thy desperate hand” (3.3.1). Friar acknowledges how desperate Romeo is and also how immature he is. Tybalt also always wanted to fight, and was the most aggressive person. Like I said earlier, Tybalt wanted to fight Romeo, but Romeo refused, he also was the aggressor in the first fight that got them warned by the Prince.
Tybalt is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death because he created conflicts throughout the play. Tybalt challenging Romeo to a fight and keeps trying to fight Romeo, even though Romeo pleaded to not fight. Tybalt ends up killing Mercutio and being killed by Romeo. Resulting in Romeo’s banishment, leading to Juliet and Romeo’s death at the end of the play. There is one thing that could’ve happened to avoid Romeo and Juliet’s death.
Do you hate the type of people who just start fighting? That's the type of person Tybalt is. Tybalt is to blame for his reckless hate for Montagues. Tybalt's hate for Montagues runs in his family, but his is on another level.
At the Capulet party that Benvolio took Romeo to, Tybalt wanted to kill Romeo when he heard his voice from behind the mask, he said, “I can tell by his voice that this man is a Montague. Get me my sword, boy. -What, does this peasant dare to come here with his face covered by a mask to sneer at and scorn our celebration? Now, by the honor of our family, I do not consider it a crime to kill him.” (Shakespeare 1.5.9). Capulet stopped Tybalt and told him, “You will tolerate him. What, little man? I saw you will. What the- Am I the boss here or you? What the- You won’t tolerate him! God help me! You’ll start a riot among my guests! There will be chaos!” (Shakespeare 1.5.41). So Tybalt took it somewhere else. Capulet was only worried about his guests, not Romeo’s life. This lead to Tybalt trying to kill Romeo but killing Mercutio instead. When Tybalt saw Romeo, his first thought was to kill him and honor his family. Capulet never
Tybalt could also be held accountable for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt's nasty, hot-headed persona caused a lot of strife as he always started brawls and quarrelled with the Montagues. When Tybalt gets in a fight with Mercutio, despite the Prince's orders to
Tybalt, the cousin of Juliet, has a quick temper and frequently acts on impulse. When he first appears, he arrives at the brink of a street fight, and when Benvolio tries to calm him down he gets riled up and says, “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word/ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee./ Have at thee, coward!” (1:1, 71-73) When Prince Escalus arrives to see this fight, he raises the consequences on the warring families. He will no longer stand by without doing something and threatens, “If ever you disturb our streets again,/ Your lives shall pay the the forfeit of the peace” (1:1, 98-99). The stakes of the family feud have been taken to a new level, whereas before the Prince was just mad but didn’t act on that anger, now the families are threatened with death if they act out again, all because Tybalt and some Capulet servants jumped into a fight. Even after the Prince’s threats, of which Tybalt knows the stakes, Tybalt comes to fight Romeo the next day but instead finds Benvolio and
Tybalt thinks it an honourable, righteous act to kill any Montague in order to protect the Capulet family name. He takes Romeo's presence as open-faced effrontery and a clear threat to the Capulet family. Lord Capulet orders him not to start a scandal: "I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement. " Even this train of restraining and soothing comments do not succeed in calming Tybalt's petty and vengeful feelings of hatred for Romeo: "I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall" (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 92-93).
In the beginning of the story, the Montagues and Capulets break out fighting in the middle of the street and they are told to stop their fighting or else they will be banished. Juliet is a Capulet, and her father is hosting a party. Romeo longing for his love Rosaline decides to crash the party. When Romeo meets Juliet, he instantly falls in love. But almost instantaneously Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice. “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What! Dares the slave. Come hither, covered with an antic face, To fleer and scorn our solemnity? Now, by the stock and honor of my kin. To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.” (1.5.53-58) From this moment on, Tybalt is out for Romeo.
Romeo wants revenge and fights with Tybalt. In this fight, Romeo kills Tybalt. When Romeo realizes the consequences of his actions, he says that he is “Fortune’s fool” (3.1.142). He believes that he has no control over the killings of Mercutio and Tybalt. However, these events are caused by his own rashness. Romeo chooses to fight with Tybalt and even starts the fight. Romeo fights to avenge his friend’s death. Romeo’s actions are rash because he does not consider the results of his actions. Romeo could resolve the conflict in some nonviolent way, but his mind is fixed on killing Tybalt. Romeo is exiled from Verona because he kills Tybalt. His rashness causes problems for his own family as well as for the Capulets and for the Prince. Romeo’s rashness in killing Tybalt leads to his killing himself.
It is clear that Tybalt takes the deep-dispute between two families more serious than any other characters in the play. His willingness to risk his life to defence the Capulet’s honour is clear when he declares “by the stock and honour of [his] kin, to strike [Romeo] dead [he] hold it not a sin.” Tybalt’s extreme loyalty to the Capulet’s house can be found as a source of his spiteful and arrogance, which all contributes to his death and deepens the hate between two
In contrast, Mercutio attempts to stop Tybalt’s thirst for vengeance when he tries to duel Romeo but ultimately gets killed in the process of trying to save his good friend from being killed by Tybalt which causes Romeo to take vengeance upon Tybalt by killing him.
First, Romeo’s kind and calm personalities act as an advantage for many of the possible problems he could have had, such as Capulet hatred towards him and his increase in violence. After Romeo was depressed because he liked Rosaline and she didn’t like him back, his cousin Benvolio helped Romeo sneak into a Capulet party so he could get over Rosaline and pick another woman that he might want. As Romeo was describing how Juliet looked to his cousin, Tybalt, Capulet’s nephew, figured out that Romeo was at the party by his voice. He then confronted Capulet and asked him if he could kill him, but surprisingly Capulet lets him stay at the party and calls Romeo a gentleman and a good man (Shakespeare Act 1 Scene 1 Line 64). Capulet could have captured him or even killed him, but he did not. Capulet stated that Romeo is a well-governed youth and that Romeo is a good man, which shows that Romeo isn’t a person who would cause a commotion and that he causes no threat to the Capulet family. Later on, as Mercutio, the prince's kinsman, is arguing and fighting with Tybalt about him being one of his villain Romeo’s friends, Romeo comes in and says, “Tybalt, the reason I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such greeting. Villain am I none.Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not” (Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 1 Line 58). As Tybalt wants to fight Romeo and bring in violence,