Tybalt who is similar in character to Bernardo for being hot headed, saw Romeo at the Capulet party and thought he was mocking the Capulets. Tybalt says to Capulet, “Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, a villain that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night. ”(Act 1, Scene 5, Line 69) Capulet responds with just let him be but Tybalt insisting he confront Romeo.
His hatred towards them was strong, anytime he spotted a Montague he thought he would have to fight one of them. Tybalt sees Romeo at a dance one night, at the Capulet's house. He gets angry and about challenges Romeo to a duel in the middle of the dance, but Lord Capulet claims him down for a bit saying that he is no harm. The next day Romeo is talking to his friend, Mercutio when Romeo says, “Tybalt, old Capulet’s nephew, has sent a letter to Romeo’s father’s house (Act 2 scene page 76)” The letter was a challenge to Romeo from Tybalt for a duel, Romeo tells Mercutio how he doesn’t want to fight.
The Montagues are confused on why the feud is roaring again. It happened so long ago they don’t even remember what it’s about all they know is they hate each other. The families fight makes it so the two young teens can’t be honest about their feelings. It also makes it so they have to hide their feelings towards each other from their parents. Romeo sneaks into the Capulet ball and Tybalt sees him which restarts the feud between the families “Uncle this is a Montague, our foe, a villain that is wither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night.”
The feud between the Capulets and the Montagues intensifies so much that people start murdering others. Benvolio and Mercutio talk while walking together, and Benvolio says that he and Mercutio should go home and avoid the drama with the Capulets. Ironically, Mercutio and Benvolio end up seeing Tybalt and a few other Capulets. Tybalt and Mercutio start to fight, but Romeo shows up and tries to stop them. He shouts, “Tybalt!
This act shows that Romeo does truly possess an explosive temper. In addition, this scene indisputably illustrates the fact that Tybalt is devoted to his family. Resuming with the Capulet tradition, Tybalt loathes the Montagues without a proper reason. He knows only that this house is a rival to his own, and that is enough basis for him to actively contest them. Because of this, Tybalt involves himself in two fatal altercations with Montague supporters.
on the Verona street, Bevnolio and Murcutio wait around for Romeo to meet them. Tybalt and Petruccio see them first, and start a quarrel. Tybalt makes it clear that he is looking for Romeo, whom he wants to punish for sneaking into the Capulets' masked party the previous day. When Romeo arrives, overjoyed with his recent marriage, he is deferential to Tybalt, insisting he harbors no hatred for the Capulet house. Tybalt is unsure how to deal with Romeo.
In a way, the two families are foils of each other: the Montagues appear to be rather caring, composed, and humble throughout the play, while the Capulets appear to be the complete opposite: hardy, flashy, and aggressive. The opening brawl is triggered by the Capulets, and so is the climax fight: Mercutio’s death, after Tybalt brashly challenges Romeo. The Capulet family’s choleric personalities are displayed on numerous occasions: “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” (I.1.71-72) Tybalt hollers before starting a massive brawl, or when Tybalt states “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.”
In Verona, the Capulet and Montague’s feud have been going on for as long as anyone could remember. Lady Montague is witnessed saying, “Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe” (I. i. 73). The feud is reputable in the city, and even the workers of the families bicker among each other. The Prince of Verona has had to intervene, “Three civils brawls, bred of an airy word /
The prince halts the fight before anyone gets injured, telling them to drop their weapons and to listen to him. The nuisances make the situation worse by starting the brawl and making the foes despise them even more. The leader tells the men that if they fight once more their lives will be taken. In addition to Samson and Gregory starting a dispute, another servingman’s bewilderment causes more issues to erupt. Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet 's party.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt Capulet threatens Benvolio Montague during a brawl in the streets of Verona, Italy: “‘What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?/ Turn thee, Benvolio. Look upon thy death’” (1.1.56-57). Romeo and Juliet was a play written in the mid-1590s, and it involved two, as the play stated, “star crossed lovers” (Prologue.6), Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, from feuding families that eventually took their lives to be together. One crucial character in the play was Tybalt, a teenager of the house of Capulet and Juliet’s cousin.
The play begins in Verona, a city that has had its peace shattered by the feud between two prominent families, the house of Montague and the house of Capulet. The chorus explains that amidst an ancient grudge. A pair of star-crossed lovers will take their lives which cause their parents to rage. Two servants from the house of Capulet, Sampson and Gregory, deliberately cause a fight with two servants from the Montague house, Abram and Balthasar. The nephew of Lord Montague tries to stop the fight at his arrival.
The feud between the Capulets and Montagues had been happening as long as anyone could remember. They disliked each other because they were rival families in the city of Verona, Italy. They competed to show who was top family, but what most likely started out fair was forgotten and turned into pure hatred. The hatred could be seen throughout the play, especially when Romeo and Tybalt dueled. Tybalt said how much he hated Romeo, he even called him “that villain Romeo.”
One of the men in red, of the Capulet family, bites his thumb and spits to the ground as a group of men in green, of the Montague family, pass by. Alarmed, one of the men in green, a Montague, asks if “you bite your thumb at us, sir?”(1.1.47) Zeffirelli chose to omit over twenty lines between the two Montagues for the same reason Shakespeare chose to include them, to make it appealing to their audience. Zeffirelli understood that young audiences would be
For example, Tybalt and Mercutio draw their swords against each other in order to fight for their houses’ honor, and finally both are killed for this reason. Romeo on the other side at first avoids fighting due to his marriage with Juliet, but when he thinks himself as an offspring of Montagues murders Tybald to take revenge for Mercutio’s death. Consequently and according to Coppelia Kahn, “the play is constantly critical of the feud as the medium through which criteria of patriarchally oriented masculinity are voiced”. Moreover, the fact that Mercutio takes part in the feud although he is neither a Capulet nor a Montague reveals that “feuding has become the normal social pursuit for young men in Verona” (176). Lastly, the nature of the feud involves obscene sexual innuendo towards women, something that becomes evident when someone considers the puns the Capulet servants make with language referring to sexuality, such as their wordplay regarding Montague’s women virginity: “I will cut off their heads…
O’ Romeo, my dearest Romeo! It pains me so to write this, and the very thought of you not being beside me is a stab in my heart. I urge my tears not to fall as I pen this-for you are alive, and not dead, and I must rejoice in this. It pains me so that we are only just wed, yet we must be separated. I can still feel your light kiss lingering above my brow, when you bid me farewell.
