Violence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

At first, when Juliet was told that Tybalt had died at the hands of Romeo she felt a wave of confusion wash over her. “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?” Juliet was so confused as to how Romeo could commit such a treacherous deed and never have shown signs of such evil before. Suddenly, Juliet’s confusion was melting away as the anger began to boil

As a consequence of the brawl between Tybalt and Mercutio, Mercutio ends up dead which then develops the theme because of the pain Romeo feels after hearing about his friend’s death.

This example only gives the audience a teasing taste for what is about to happen as a result of Tybalt’s short temper. Fast forwarding to act three, Tybalt’s impulsive behavior is far more drastic and impactful to the play this time around. At the town square of Verona, Tybalt and his compatriots run into Mercutio and Romeo. Still infuriated by Romeo’s presence at his family’s ball, Tybalt decides to vent his anger by challenging Romeo to battle him. When Romeo backs away, Mercutio steps in and fights with Tybalt. After a while of fighting, the distressed Romeo steps in to break it up, but, “Tybalt, reaching under Romeo’s arm, stabs Mercutio and flees” (3.1.82). Mercutio announces that, “I am hurt” (3.1.83), and eventually dies. After witnessing his friend be slaughtered, Romeo seeks revenge on Tybalt, and subsequently slays the murderer of his best friend. As a result of Romeo’s actions, the inamorato is banished to Mantua. When putting the pieces together, the audience watching the play can see how Tybalt, and not Romeo, is responsible for the banishment. Romeo was simply seeking to avenge the life of his friend, while Tybalt’s actions were a direct result of violent thinking. Tybalt’s choice to fight and kill one of the play’s main characters highlights the high degree of his vicious personality. Tybalt’s actions end up dooming the peaceful partnership of Romeo and Juliet and thus the outcome of the play takes a turn for the

This foreshadows that Tybalt will seek revenge on Romeo and he does, by killing Mercutio. The next time Romeo and Tybalt meet, they duel, and Romeo kills

Throughout the pages of the play, Romeo's impulsivity and naivety leads him down a treacherous path, ultimately culminating in tragic consequences for himself and those around him. From his impetuous pursuit of love at first sight with Juliet to his reckless decision to duel Tybalt in a fit of rage, his actions are driven by fervent love and fierce loyalty, ultimately leading to catastrophic consequences. Romeo's

Therefore turn and draw.” Tybalt states. This quote is important because Tybalt fights Mercutio and Mercutio dies, which leads to Romeo fighting Tybalt and Romeo killing him. The theme is further developed when Juliet fakes her death. In Act 4, Scene 3 “Here’s a drink”.

The hot-blooded and furious Tybalt had a grudge against Romeo, which inevitably led to a series of misfortunes, and in the end, the two protagonists died. He had held that

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.

Shakespeare manipulates Tybalt in many different ways to advance the plot. One such way is revealing aspects of the personality of the characters. Nevertheless, we had always seen Romeo as a calm and peaceful character until his best-friend was brutally murdered by Tybalt and this unleashed the inner Romeo is seeking revenge by exclaiming ¨Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him¨ Line 126. This quote means Romeo says bluntly me and you are fighting to the death. However, this also shows us Romeo can only keep his tranquility to a certain extent as to he will seek revenge when his calm is fragmented. Even so, Shakespeare advances the plot as this places punishment on Romeo forcing him out of Verona. The prince proclaims on line 186-187

This soliloquy depicts Juliet’s emotions in the way that reveals her flourishing love for Romeo even if it means her possible demise. The images that begin to grow in Juliet’s mind represents her overwhelm of fear. Shakespeare’s use of imagery and repetition regarding evil and terror emphasizes this concept of Juliet’s hysterical state of mind. The aspect of repetition also reveals the wandering emotions that Juliet has for Tybalt, her close cousin, in which Romeo did murder. Juliet’s distress begin to consume every ounce of her sanity as she worries of being buried alive and waking up before she is meant to. Her anxiety of so early waking and “pluck[ing] the mangled Tybalt from his shroud” indirectly expresses her emotions of guilt and sorrow for the death of her cousin (IV, iv, 39). The many references to Tybalt, such as when Juliet claims that

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.

The audience is introduced to Romeo who is crestfallen after hearing the news that

When Tybalt saw Romeo and his friends at the party, he immediately wanted to cause a scene and fight, but since he was stopped, Tybalt wanted to get revenge. He even sent Romeo a

In “Romeo and Juliet”, the theme of violence plays a major role throughout the play. It is very noticeable how the eager love between Romeo and Juliet has significantly impacted the overall violence all through the play. In addition, Romeo and Juliet think that they only can protect their love through death. So, this leads them to think of committing suicide . Also, their willingness to sacrifice not only everything in life but their own lives as to defend their love to each other. As a result , the theme of violence comes up to play a primary reason in the play which affect their love to each other . On the other hand , it is very ironic to the reader how love can turn into hate. For example, the reader can realize how the theme of violence

Tybalt affected the theme of Romeo and Juliet. After Tybalt killed Romeos best friend Romeo was highly upset and then went to Verona. Then Romeo and Tybalt got into a fight ending in Tybalt's death which then got him banished from Verona."Romeo has been banished" (Act 3, Shakespeare).Verona is where Juliet lived therefore by law Romeo could not see Juliet which was a conflict of the story. Romeo then had to go to Mantua. Tybalt made the theme of the powerful nature of love and fate because even the inconvenience of Romeo legally not being able to see Juliet they still overcame it.