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Romeo And Juliet In The 1500's

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In the 1500’s there was no t.v.’s, phones, tablets, or even radios! The only activity or entertainment people could watch or listen to is watching plays. A well known play writer in the 1500’s was known as William Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote a total of 38 plays which is a lot being that they would last around 3 hours. A well known play he wrote is about to star crossed lovers that never had a chance of being together. The two lovers were called Romeo and Juliet. Many people affected the gruesome, depressing ending to this story like Juliet’s nurse, Juliet, Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, Romeo, and even the priest Friar Laurence Romeo was also a huge character in the story (hence the name) that develop the amazing yet depressing plot. Romeo is very over dramatic, wanting love and depressed which is one of the key reasons why Romeo and Juliet died. One big way Romeo affected the plot is paraphrased from line 84-91, scene 1, act 3 “Tybalt is alive and Mercution is dead? It’s time to stop being …show more content…

His personality is always heated and trying to create a bigger hatred between the families than there is right now. Tybalt says “Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man” right before he kills Mercutio in act 3, scene1, line 27. In this part of the scene Tybalt wants to fight Romeo but Romeo will deny because of his new relationship with Tybalt but Tybalt has yet to be told. In act 3, scene 1, 52-55, the play also says “Romeo tries to break up the fight Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s am”. After the murder of Mercutio, Tybalt ran away and Romeo followed them seeking revenge for the death of his best friend. Romeo murdered Tybalt and was charged with banishment and after this point the story just gets worse and worse over again. This is why Tybalt affected the plot of Romeo and Juliet so much in such a negative

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Tybalt always kept Romeo’s intrusion in the back of his mind, until one day when he decided to act upon it. “Turn and draw” (3.1.38), he tells Romeo. Romeo being a wise young man doesn’t fight him. Tybalt has to take his rage out on someone, so he decides to fight and kill Mercutio. Romeo then kills Tybalt and gets banished.

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Tybalt instigates Romeo when he said, “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain” (3.1.31-32). Tybalt is insulting Romeo by calling him a villain, thus adding more tension to the situation. By doing so, this made Romeo more willing to fight. Romeo tried to avoid the fight more than once. Tybalt was determined to fight someone, which is supported by the fact that he went through with fighting Mercutio even after Romeo rejected the initial altercation.

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Tybalt runs away and Romeo mourns for his friend. Tybalt re-enters the scene and Romeo is filled with anger that he kills Tybalt without thinking which is his tragic flaw. Based on this scene, I believe it is everyone's fault for Mercutio's death. It's Romeo's fault because he got in the way of Tybalt and Mercutio fighting which gave Tybalt the opportunity to stab Mercutio. If he didn't, Mercutio may still be alive.

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When Tybalt and Mercutio are fighting, Romeo jumps in front of Tybalt while he has his sword drawn, and gets Mercutio killed. After this, Romeo vowed to take revenge by killing Tybalt. Romeo was banished as a result of killing Tybalt, so he could not see Juliet anymore. Some people might say Tybalt is at fault for drawing his sword in the first place, but Tybalt was not trying to kill Mercutio and still got murdered by Romeo for it. Romeo acts out of emotion rather than thinking.

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Tybalt and Romeo’s close friend Mercutio got into this altercation, Mercutio died because Tybalt killed him with a dagger and Romeo seen his dear friend lying there dead. He was in an outrage, Romeo decides at that very moment to kill Tybalt which lead to him being banished from their town by the prince because he already gave them a warning, and Mercutio was related to the prince which probably made his punishment much worse.

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