How Does Shakespeare Create Conflict In Romeo And Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about love, romance, relationships, families and violence. Although mainly about love, there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict. This play opens with a fight and ends with reconciliation. The violence in this play occurs from a long standing disagreement between two families (Montague’s + Capulet’s). The events lead to the tragic deaths of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ In this essay I will discuss how Shakespeare uses conflict to create the tragedy in which style this play was written. Physical conflict is the most obvious form of conflict, it is the effective in terms of representing itself, but it is also the most deadly and leads to more eventualities than any other kind of conflict. It leads
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However this type is a little more sinister than the last, for there is a battle going on within the households especially Capulet’s mansion. After spending the night with Romeo, Juliet awakens to find that is to be married next week, to Paris. The effect of finding out this information out is shocking for Juliet seeing as she is already married, and to married to two people is considered sinful, even today. Shakespeare also here uses mental conflict, to give Juliet a slightly panic stricken side. Nothing it seems could be worse for poor Juliet until her father enters. “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!” (Act 3 Scene 5 Line 160) are the words that follow Juliet’s banter with her father. Juliet and the audience already know that she cannot also marry Paris, but for her to refuse to marry Paris, which is exactly what she did, would be an insult to her father, and would also betray her loyalty, honour, and duty to her father. Before Capulet’s exit, he says that if she does not marry Paris, then he would be willing to let her “die in the streets,” which shows how serious this marriage is to him. Consequently, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ forge a plan which will free them
However this type is a little more sinister than the last, for there is a battle going on within the households especially Capulet’s mansion. After spending the night with Romeo, Juliet awakens to find that is to be married next week, to Paris. The effect of finding out this information out is shocking for Juliet seeing as she is already married, and to married to two people is considered sinful, even today. Shakespeare also here uses mental conflict, to give Juliet a slightly panic stricken side. Nothing it seems could be worse for poor Juliet until her father enters. “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!” (Act 3 Scene 5 Line 160) are the words that follow Juliet’s banter with her father. Juliet and the audience already know that she cannot also marry Paris, but for her to refuse to marry Paris, which is exactly what she did, would be an insult to her father, and would also betray her loyalty, honour, and duty to her father. Before Capulet’s exit, he says that if she does not marry Paris, then he would be willing to let her “die in the streets,” which shows how serious this marriage is to him. Consequently, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ forge a plan which will free them