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Romeo And Juliet Natural Conflict

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Naturally, violence and conflict will only breed tragedy. When reading the story of Romeo and Juliet, you can find many prime examples of this. Throughout the story of Romeo and Juliet, it is the idea of identity that contributes to how their love story starts and ends. The two of them are in love, but are natural born enemies. This is what ties the entire story of Romeo and Juliet together. The story of Romeo and Juliet illustrates how influential the reality of who, or what someone is can be, specifically when you’re in love with them. You can find this especially when the two opposing families engage in conflict. For example, in scene five of act one, while Romeo’s heart fails to resist setting itself on Juliet, Tybalt, a member of the opposing capulet family, urges to take physical action against Romeo simply because he is a montague. This part of the story portrays the existing bad blood between the two families which goes to say how dedicated and willful Romeo was to Juliet, giving no regards to their differences. Romeo is aware of who Juliet is as well as the consequences that could come from building a relationship with …show more content…

Examples of this can be found throughout the entire story, but you can find this particularly towards the end of the story, in the third scene of act V when the lives of these two young lovers come to an end. Once Juliet was aware of the state Romeo was in, she quickly took matters into her own hands, deciding to join him in the afterlife. In these moments (lines 160-170 of this act), Juliet felt confusion and sorrow within herself, expressing it out loud to both herself and Friar Laurence. Figuring there was no other way for her and Romeo’s story to end considering their identities, she took her own

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