Romeo And Juliet Internal Conflict

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.

Romeo faces many challenges throughout the play regarding his star-crossed lover, Juliet. His incompatible feelings highlight the conflicting emotion of love being “A choking gall and a preserving sweet” (act 1, scene 1). Love is both sweet and bitter at times. This

It can be marvellous and then vicious. The complexity behind being a Montague and falling in love with a Capulet conveys a great reverberation. Being burdened by such a thing as their names caused Romeo to state that “My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (act 2, scene 2). Romeos hyperbolic language suggests that if Juliet doesn’t love him then he’d rather be killed than live without her love. Being denied something that you crave, association be dammed, causes one’s logic to disappear. Romeo’s logic indeed disappears when he and Juliet hastily decided to get married. Friar Lawrence tries to warn Romeo that “These violet delights have violent ends” (act 2, scene 6). But Romeo doesn’t listen to the Friar’s metaphoric language regarding sudden joys having sudden and endings. With Mercutio being slain by Tybalt, Romeo was filled with rage. He chases after Tybalt and

When her and Romeo first meet at Mr Capulets party Romeo and Juliet kiss not knowing who they are to each other. Realisation floods Juliet’s mind afterwards knowing that “My only love sprung from my only hate” (act 1, scene 5). The antithesis between “love” and “hate” is a difficulty Juliet encounters on more than one occasion. Later on, after Juliet receives the news that Tybalt has been slain by Romeo. Her internal struggle is apparent when she forces “Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring, Your tributary drops belong to woe, which you mistaking offer up to joy.” (act 3, scene 2). Juliet’s use of rhetorical device concerning her crying for joy that Romeo is alive or crying over her dead cousin is a choice between love or hate that she isn’t willing to make. Subsequently, Juliet has to make a hard decision on whether or not she wants to implement the Friar’s insane plan to lower her heartrate, put her to sleep therefore she looks dead impacting her marriage to Paris. But with this risky plan comes Juliet’s soliloquy expressing internal struggles with “what if it be a poison which the Friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead,…and there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?” (act4, scene 3). Juliet is unsure if the friar plans to kill her so he won’t be in trouble for marrying her off to Romeo. With plans come risks but at the risk of your life would you follow the plan or