Conflict as a Theme in Romeo & Juliet and Connection to "Shrek"

Conflict is an extended struggle that usually represents a shared disagreement. A lot of this is represented in many different forms and presented throughout the Romeo and Juliet play. A movie that is fairly similar to and whose topics relate in many ways to Shakespeare's play is "Shrek". An ogre, whose name happens to be Shrek, and a princess, Fiona, fall in love with each other. Fiona's family does not approve of this since the humans are in war with the fairy tale creatures and also because princesses are supposed to be with princes, not with ogres. It is similar to the play because Juliet's family does not think Capulet's are supposed to marry Montague's because of their differences. It is almost like an analogy; ogres do not go with princesses as Capulet's do not go with Montague's. Just as friction is evident in movies like "Shrek", so it is in literature. In "Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare's famous love story, conflict is the dominant theme. It exists in the story by examples of Romeo's struggles with Tybalt and himself, Mercutio fighting with Tybalt and Juliet's nurse, and by Juliet's troubles with her nurse and her father. Plenty of conflicts are present in Verona, Italy. Most of them are caused by the feud between two families, the Montague's and the Capulet's. Even though there are a lot of disputes going on, the two that stand out the most are the one between Romeo and himself and the one between Romeo and Tybalt. The first one is Romeo's strife with himself. He falls in love with Juliet almost instantly at the Capulet feast, which indicated disaster right away, since Romeo is a Montague and Juliet a Capulet; however Romeo did not realize she was a Capulet until it was too late. "Is she [Juliet] a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe's debt!"(III.i.57). Since the Montague's and the Capulet's are in a feud, Romeo is very worried that he might not be able to date Juliet because of their surnames. He fears his life because it is literally at the