Romeo And Juliet Conflict Essay

Love is a weapon. People take advantage of it to get what they want. Romeo and Juliet is a story of 2 lovers unknowingly being used by the adults within their lives. The lovers rebel and defy the adults which ultimately leads to their deaths. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses conflict and irony to convey that love drives one’s actions to the extreme. The irony of love is that the decisions people make to stay together often causes separation. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is forced to marry Count Paris, however she is already married to Romeo, her first love. Fearing the reality of a life without Romeo, Juliet turns to the person she thought she could count on, her nurse, but it doesn’t go as planned: “Your first is dead—or

Within the play, both Romeo and Juliet face conflict. The different ways the secret lovers deal with the conflict are irrational and foolish. For example, when Juliet is forced to marry Count Paris, she makes an illogical decision to choose death over a life without Romeo: “Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. / I’ll to the friar to know his remedy. / If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.241-243). Juliet shows her emotions within these dramatic statements as her connection with Romeo overpowers everything else. By choosing her love over her life, she shows her irrational thinking. It also shows how she deals with conflict, in this case it is the arranged marriage with Count Paris, and shows how she is still not mature yet. Not only that, but when Romeo gets revenge on Tybalt and kills him, Romeo shows how angry he is by saying, “Hence banished is banish’d from the world, / And world’s exile is death. Then “banishment,” / Is death misterm’d. Calling death “banishment,” / Thou cuttst my head off with a golden axe” (III.iii.19-23). His decision of killing Tybalt in vengeance has the consequence of banishment. Romeo says that banishment is worse than death as it is torture being without Juliet. Romeo says again that he would rather die than live without Juliet, however in this instance, there is still a hope of seeing Juliet. Life is something Romeo doesn’t desire if Juliet is no longer with