Comparing Act One Of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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There are two families which are Caplet and Montague in Verona, Italy. They have a long time mutual hostility to each other. Juliet, who is the daughter of Caplet and she is only 13 years old. Juliet’s brother, Tybalt, is a very battle some person and hate family Montague so much. Montague’s son Romeo is a nice boy and he was loving Rosaline before he meet Juliet. In the beginning of Act I, the servants of Capulet family and Montague family had the third time fighting. As Romeo’s cousin Benvolio tried to stop the fight, Tybalt only wanted to combat. Finally, this battle was ended by the prince of Verona. Later in that day, Caplet family had a big dinner in their house, they invited all the people except Montague family. Father Caplet also wanted use this dinner to make his daughter meet Paris, who was a successful young man. When Romeo heard that Roealine would go to the party tonight, he decided to go there, too. However, at the party, Romeo met Juliet and both of them full love in each other. …show more content…

One of them was said by Tybalt. During the party, Tybalt reminded Romeo by his voice and he wanted to kill him, but was stopped by his uncle. Then Tybalt said, “…This intrusion shall Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.” For Tybalt, he said this properly just wanted to kill Romeo someday in future because he couldn’t do anything at the party. But for readers, this is a big foreshadowing about the destiny of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare use this quote to show people everything looks good now, but as the connection with Romeo and Juliet become closer and close, all of this will be