Title: What are the main conflicts in Romeo and Juliet - GCSE English - Marked by Teachers.com
Headings: What are the main conflicts in Romeo and Juliet
What are the main conflicts in Romeo and Juliet
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Content: Characters need to go through conflict, before there can be a happy ending or the happy ending won't mean anything. The central conflict in Romeo and Juliet is the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. Members of each family hate, insult and fight each other, even the household staff become caught up in this rivalry. Shakesphere's Romeo and Juliet is essentially known as love story, although, it is entwined with different types of conflict, and this is what I will be examining throughout this essay. The Prologue is a fourteen line sonnet and would have been read to the audience providing an introduction to the play. ... read more. Middle
Both Tybalt and Mercutio are portrayed as powerful characters and when Tybalt asks for a word, Mercutio replies, "make it a word and a blow," (3:1:35), already provoking Tybalt. Tybalt tries to provoke Romeo, ''thou art a villain" (3:1:54). Romeo does not want to fight and Shakespeare uses dramatic irony here, the audience knows, he has just married Tybalt's cousin, Juliet, creating a sense of tension. The Elizabethan society believed that a man too much in love lost his manliness.