Have you ever felt indecisive or thought “should I do it or should I not”? In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare reflects on the human nature of internal conflict. He writes of feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. They each have one child, Romeo and Juliet. Although they are from feuding families, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and through an unfortunate series of events, these ill-fated lovers take their lives, resulting in the end of the feud.
The genre tragedy is displayed throughout the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The genre is effectively used to warn against the dangers of conflict, both internal and external. The impacts of conflict are demonstrated through the characters Romeo and Juliet. Romeo generally encounters external conflict and Juliet encounters internal conflict. Their love that was never supposed to blossom caused a string of tragic events to occur ending with one final tribulation.
In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's persistently changing feelings toward Romeo after she finds out that he killed Tybalt show that she has trouble deciding whether to abide as Romeo's wife or to be loyal to her family as a Capulet. Juliet is going back and forth between taking Romeo's side or her family's side and says; "But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? / That villain cousin would have killed my husband"(Shakespeare, 3.2.100-101). Juliet is having internal conflict to decide whether to be faithful to her family, or to her husband whom she is tied to in marriage. Juliet feels deceived because Romeo killed Tybalt
Feuds can be very deadly, in the play ¨Romeo and Juliet¨ by William Shakespeare. The feud is to blame for the many deaths in the play and why Romeo and Juliet had to secretly get married. The feud is to blame for the many deaths because if there wasn´t a feud the lovers wouldn´t have to get married in secret. A second reason is if there wasn´t a feud Romeo´s best friend didn´t have to die, Tybalt didn´t have to die, Romeo and Juliet didn´t have to die.
In Romeo and Juliet, both Shakespeare and Luhrmann explore the idea that familial love can lead to external conflict. In both texts, many scenarios of conflict occur between the Montagues and Capulets, and family loyalty is portrayed as its source. During the service station scene, the Montagues are dressed in loose, exuberant clothing that complements their easy-going nature, whereas the Capulets are dressed in dark, tight-fitting clothing that augments their tense, more serious nature. Their respective loyalties and contrasting identities, represented by Luhrmann through costuming, intensify the quarrel between them. Shakespeare’s use of figurative language serves a similar idea.
Many people have dilemmas in their minds and often feel conflicted about different decisions. The character of Juliet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is an excellent example of these problems. She often gets pulled in different directions about her love towards Romeo, especially after Tybalt is killed, which helps to show that internal conflicts regarding important decisions can be hard to manage. Juliet’s reaction to the banishment of Romeo and the death of Tybalt helps to develop her as a character who is indecisive about who she loves more.
Romeo and Juliet, the original by Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann’s film both convey the idea about conflict. The contrasting ideas of Both Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet and Luhrmann’s film Romeo and Juliet explore the idea of conflict. Although situated in the contrasting social and historical contexts of Elizabethan England and the corporate world of Verona Beach in Southern California in the 1990s, the two texts both represent internal and external conflict that conveys the feud between the two families, Montagues and Capulets. However, whereas Shakespeare’s original expresses conflict through dialogue and language techniques, Luhrmann’s film expresses conflict through cinematic techniques that visually allows the viewers
Conflict is something that has been disrupting and damaging society for centuries. In such conflicts, one would expect parents to act as peacemakers. However, in some cases, parents act as quite the contrary. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a major conflict is demonstrated through the Montagues and Capulets; two feuding families in the city of Verona. Their feud is ultimately what leads to the play's tragic ending.
Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet defines what it means to be human in all places and ages through exploring the universal experiences of internal conflict and violence. The story of Romeo and Juliet is set during the Elizabethan era between 1558 to 1603 in Verona, a violent and patriarchal period. The Baz Luhrmann-directed film adaptation of this play conveys the primary themes of love, conflict, and violence for a modern audience while also illuminating how attitudes have evolved over time. Internal conflict is a theme that is relevant to people in our society today.
Maxx Barrett Duffy English 9 3/13/23 Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare, where two young lovers are driven to commit suicide over eachother. Their families are rivals, which creates a barrier between the two of them. Neither of Romeo or Juliet’s actions are what caused the tragedy, though. Most things they did were reactionary to their surroundings.
Juliet is responsible the tragedy within the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. As a thirteen year-old, Juliet is overprotected by the Capulets which leads to her love with Romeo. However, her effort to not inform the Capulets about her love nor marriage due to the feud between the two families stimulated tremendous amounts of unnecessary conflicts. Neither Paris nor Lord Capulet know about the hidden marriage as they plan for the wedding on Thursday. In Excerpt Three, Paris states, “ Now , sir, her father counts it dangerous That she do give her sorrow so much sway, And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,” (4.1.9-10).
When I was younger, I remember having an argument with one of my friends over another mutual friend. We kept debating over who was smarter, nicer, and who would do anything for her. Our relentless competition distracted us from being true friends with her, and eventually, she stopped being friends with us. Our conflict finally ended as we both realized we did not have to prove who was the better friend if it meant hurting her or each other for a pointless victory. A rivalry between others can easily lead to risks and unexpected consequences, which typically remain unnoticed until something fatal occurs.
The Feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet The aim of this essay is to define the nature of the feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and to discuss its function in the dramatic development of the play. The conflict between the families of Montagues and Capuletes is presented as the outcome of an ultimate expression of patriarchal society in Verona which promotes virility at any cost and obscene sexual innuendo targeting women. However, the love of Romeo and Juliet comes to prove the young people’s indifference towards the feud but at the same time the patriarchy’s tremendous power over them. Finally, the family’s feud combined with the contribution of fate makes the timing of events such, that a tragic resolution cannot be prevented.
In reference to the bold statements of the younglings throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet, it could be said that they were willing to ‘risk it all’, despite the circumstances they were under. These two lovers, being described as “star-crossed”, propelled the storyline in a way that was facile for conflicts to form, all of which were a result of their forbidden love (Prologue 5). Over the short course of time during the period in which their story had taken place, Shakespeare asserted the impression that all these conflicts were caused by a cruel overwhelming fate, sheer accident, and by their own willfulness. All these facets of the plot coalesced and attributed to the bringing about of Romeo and Juliet’s untimely and unfortunate death.
Throughout Romeo and Juliet the theme of conflict is imparted in many forms, mostly through physical violence; a reflection of the Renaissance era in which there was political turmoil and a copious amount of European nations were at war. Shakespeare chose to dramatise the theme of conflict to showcase the ideology that conflict is inevitable and represent how “there can never be the good without the bad” (Hipponensi).Shakespeare successfully does so by exploring the theme of conflict in different forms; violence versus peace, parent versus child, sacred versus profane and inner conflict. The use of conflict in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a vital aspect of the play and as with each conflict that is introduced drama is heightened. The theme of conflict
