Juliet Fight Quotes

Fate’s Cruel Trick

Using courage to overcome conflict and to create harmony in life is one theme in Romeo and Juliet, a famous story by William Shakespeare. To conquer their families’ feud, two forbidden lovers stop the conflicts with the power of courage. At the annual Capulet ball, Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love at first sight, which causes the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues to grow. Next, Friar Laurence discovers the two forbidden lovers affection, and has the courage to marry them hoping to create harmony, however it created more conflict. Following the wedding, an angry mob arrives in the streets, where Tybalt slays Mercutio, and in revenge Romeo murders Tybalt. To brighten her mood, Juliet’s parents have arranged

Both Romeo and Juliet had the courage to fall in love, despite all of the obstacles they would have to overcome. In the balcony scene, where Romeo declares his love for Juliet, he states: “Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow/That tips with silver all these fruit-tree-tops.” (II,ii,106-107) When Friar Laurence discovered their love, he agreed to marry them, which was meant to create harmony for Romeo and Juliet, but later created more conflict when Romeo murdered Tybalt. Friar Lawrence, in this scene, is marrying Romeo and Juliet: “For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.” (II,iii, 93-94) By saying this, Friar Lawrence means that he will agree to marry them because he wants to create harmony by ending their family’s feud. Meanwhile, the Capulets and Montagues were still fighting and were not aware of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Furious at Tybalt, Mercutio states that he wants to be treated much better, and threatens to cut of Tybalt’s ears. “Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine/lives that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me/hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight.” (III,i, 73-75) Mercutio means that he is tired of being treated poorly by the Capulets, and threatens Tybalt in order to stop

Instead, Romeo’s apprentice, Benvolio, who watched Juliet’s funeral, told his master that she was dead. Consequently, Romeo rushed to her family tomb. When he arrived at the tomb, Romeo stumbled upon Paris, who tried to stop him from entering by saying, “This is that banished haughty Montague that murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief it is supposed the fair creature died..” (V, Scene iii, 49-51) Paris had the courage to stand up to Romeo and try to stop him from entering the burial site, which created conflict, because Romeo came to the tomb to harm himself, and not the dead bodies. However, Paris was oblivious to this, and tried to stop Romeo by fighting him. As a result, Romeo killed Paris and continued on with his plan to poison