Romeo And Juliet

PREVIEW:

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 to the deaths of Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, and вЂ?Romeo and Juliet’. Physical conflict scenes are memorable and therefore used majorly on three times throughout the play, for dramatic effectiveness. In Act 1 Scene 1, the feud starts of with a small brawl of servants from both of the households. Benvolio does his best to вЂ?keep the peace’ but the feud is overwhelming and the fight begins “Gregory, remember thy washing blow!” No deaths occur in the opening scene, but the Prince sentences any man or woman of Montague or Capulet blood who disturbs Verona’s streets again, their lives shall pay the forfeit. Shakespeare sets the scene in the first Act and the feud only escalates from there. Shakespeare has used the first conflict scene immediately to show how serious the feud is, ranging from servants right up to the lords of the households. In Act 3 scene 1, a particularly vicious and war driven character, Tybalt, ends up with two deaths on his behalf, Mercutio’s and his own. By killing off Romeo’s best friend and Juliet’s cousin, Shakespeare