Romeo And Juliet Conflicts

Initially, there are mainly two aspects of literature put into stories that are by far are the most important in influencing story plots and most importantly conflicts and resolutions in such stories. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves, and Authur Laurent’s West Side Story there are many similarities between these stories amongst the central conflict. For example, in all three stories there are two different groups resembling different sides of a rivalry or different social classes, and from each of these groups there is one lover,who falls in love with a member of the opposing crowd. There is a conflict due to the fact that the lovers both fell into forbidden love with people from the opposing side
In Romeo and Juliet the novel’s setting is Verona, Italy in the 1600’s . During this time period there were great battles and rivalries for things such as thoughts, opinions, and much more. Also, many “Territories competed for resources” (Historical Context 3) creating even more competition. This addition to the historical culture of the story plays an immense role in constructing the conflict. Since territories competed for resources in this time period in Italy, this started the competition and rivalry between the Montagues and the Capulets who are, “two households, both alike in dignity” (Shakespeare prologue.1) who formed a rivalry, where their “ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (Prologue.3-4). This shows that the two families argue for dignity and pride, so much that they turn into rivals. Many years after this rivalry had begun, Romeo from the Montagues and Juliet from the Capulets fall in love and want to marry each other. The conflict begins when they find out they can’t marry each other because their families are rivals, due to the competition for resources. The fact that there was so much competition for resources, made these two families become rivals, and so when children from each of the rival
After that, when Romeo and Juliet decide to secretly see and marry each other, once married, Romeo and Juliet constantly experience obstacles in their way. They feel as is in their culture that, “God and Fortune as figures that work together to control the fate of human beings”