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Antagonist, displeasing, irritating, and annoying are all words that the silent majority of us can connect to family, friends, and foes with anger issues. Although there are a few well rounded traits of Tybalt, from the house of Capulet, anger is definitely one of his weak spots. A couple of notable stretches in the play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” bring out his worst enemy, his own fire and fury. A brief example of this is near the beginning before the Prince threatens to kill the next person who fights in the streets of Verona. Next up comes the epic three way battle between Mercutio, Romeo, and Tybalt, ending up in a chain reaction one person will perish at a time. Tybalt character is easily diminished, and it is not hard to …show more content…

Let me further explain this phenomenon, Tybalt has never dealt with his outrage in a proper way, therefore this rage was channeled into a even deeper resentment for the Montagues more than any other member in the Capulet clan. For example, “What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee coward (Shakespeare 379)! Here in the streets Tybalt is being an aggressor, consequently Montague and Capulet start to fight in the street for the third time as far as we know, resulting in the Prince showing and breaking up these two grumpy old men. When aggression and anger are accurately addressed modern society could avoid events such as …show more content…

Mercutio basically says Tybalt loves to fight and as a result of his expertise in that field he has the nine lives of a cat. For example, “Why, what is Tybalt? More than the Prince of Cats… The very butcher of a silk button” (Shakespeare 412). In this conversation they discuss ]on how seasoned of a fighter Tybalt is, although he is and excellent fighter that does not outway his responsibility for the half of the deaths in this play. In addition if his anger was contained, conducted, or kept together effectively many of the tragic incidents could have been

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Tybalt comes across Romeo and Mercutio and tries to pick a fight with Romeo. Mercurio steps in and fights in Romeo’s place and Tybalt kills Mercutio. Out of rage for Mercutio's death Romeo fights and kills Tybalt. Romeo is exiled from the country and his mother dies of grief because of it. Tybalt is responsible for killing Mercutio, driving Romeo to kill Tybalt, causing Romeo’s mother to die of grief and causing Romeo to be

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By going to Romeo and and challenging a fight Tybalt shows that he is willing to do anything, or kill anyone in order to have his way. Romeo even tried to stay away from a fight by saying, “I do protest I never injur’d thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; And so, good Capulet which

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As Mercutio and Tybalt fight, Romeo intervenes and in doing so, Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s arm. After the death of Mercutio, Romeo is disheartened by his death and avenges his friend by murdering Tybalt.

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“Anger doesn 't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can make everything worse.” As you might be able to tell, the quote could very easily apply to Tybalt, the fierce and fiery character of The Tragic Story of Romeo and Juliet. In this play, Tybalt is responsible for his own death. Some examples supporting that statement, is that he was the one who had challenged the Montague Romeo in a duel, he had been told by the prince that if they fought again in the streets of Verona, Italy then they would be killed, he also killed Mercutio, Romeo 's best friend in a duel that was meant to kill Romeo.

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His personification of “fury” being “fire-eyed”, demonstrates how Romeo’s anger is destructive and deadly, which compels him to fight Tybalt, out of love and revenge for Mercutio. Similarly, Mercutio tried to protect Romeo’s honour, out of love for

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In the duel between Tybalt and Romeo in Act III, scene i of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is the most at fault for the tragic outcome because his impulsiveness and haste interfere with Romeo’s positive intents to unify the Montague and Capulet families. First, Tybalt’s hunger for prestige prompts him to initiate the duel between himself and Romeo, Tybalt calling Romeo “a villain” (III.i.62) prior to the duel. Romeo retaliates through subtly mentioning his amorous connection with Juliet; Tybalt argues that a Montague-Capulet union “shall not excuse the injuries/That thou [Romeo] hast done me [Tybalt]” (III.i.67-68). Here, Tybalt interferes with Romeo’s positive intent to “excuse the injuries” that Tybalt believes are Romeo’s fault. Tybalt’s only practical method of resolving the feud is to slay Romeo in a duel, which forces Romeo into desperation and puts Tybalt at fault.

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With the resentment that he carries towards Romeo’s family always seems to be his motivation to rile them up. His resentment is a major reason he got killed in the first place- seeing as that caused him to kill Mercutio, making Romeo kill him out of rage. You can see that his resentment is what led him to his death when this quote appears after Mercutio basically tells him to just start fighting them- “You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, if you an you will give me occasion,”(3. 1. 18) This quote may have been the first step into Tybalt’s death, as it seems that this is the words that started this fight in the first place. All he had to do was control his strong emotion towards them and walk away- all of this could’ve been avoided that

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I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall Now seeming sweet convert to bitt’rst gall” (1.5.100-104). This scene seems to be the root of the conflict that will eventually arise into a violent engagement. This coupled with fate will set the ripple effect that leads to the tragic death of both Romeo and Juliet in motion. Furthermore, the death of Tybalt is the last push that he gives to seal Romeo’s and Juliet’s

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The play is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and the theme of the play is the power of love. I have chosen the secondary character and Juliet's cousin Tybalt, and he influences the outcome of the story with his harsh and violent nature, ego, and hatred of Romeo's family.   Tybalt is introduced as an angry, brash person and his persona helps greatly with the escalation to the eventual tragedy. His ego and loyalty to his family lead him to challenge Romeo to a swordfight, wherein Mercutio stepped in and ultimately sacrificed himself for Romeo to have the upper hand in the battle. It is argued that the tragedy happened consequently because of Tybalt's anger towards Romeo and his insult "thou art a villain" which in their time; was very

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After the party, Mercutio explains to Bevolio that, “Tybalt, the kingsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father's house, a challenge on my life. ”(II, IV, 10) Tybalt is so angered by the presence of a Montague in his home that he thinks he must challenge him to a duel. The extreme anger from such a small gesture shows the amount of hatred the Capulets have towards the Montagues and the measures they are willing to take to make them pay. Such extreme measures of violence only lead to more violence, which in this play was the cause of death for the two young star-crossed lovers who were destined for doom.

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is at the most of Mercutio’s death because of his explosive personality and temper, which led to him acting without thinking. In act 3 Scene 1, a tragic and dramatic fight takes place, where Mercutio was struck by Tybalt and as a result, died. This fight came to be because Tybalt came up to Romeo demanding a duel for he was at a Capulet ball. Romeo, being married to Tybalt’s in-law tries to avoid the conflict when Tybalt states “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain” (3.1.61-62)

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The fight illustrates Tybalt's readiness to fight, hatred towards Montagues, and his highly violent tendencies. Tybalt's aggressive behavior foreshadows and alludes to the actions dealt by him throughout the rest of the play. In addition, Tybalt's problematic behavior is also shown at the party. Tybalt immediately insults Romeo and initiates a problem at the Capulet party, expressing, 'Tis he, that villain Romeo./

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Tybalt is a violent zealot for the Capulet house with a lot of pride in his name. When Benvolio, Romeo’s Cousin is trying to stop a fight between servants of the two houses, He asks Tybalt for assistance. Instead, Tybalt says to him, “As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee,” and attacks him (1.1.66). Tybalt does not hate Benvolio for his personality even though they are complete opposites. He hates him just because he bears the name of Montague.

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It is also important to note Tybalt’s role as an influential Capulet. Tybalt, has more impact than the Officer, who is not related to either of the families involved in the conflict. Thus, it is clear that Tybalt was substantially more authoritative in creating and furthering conflict. Another pivotal moment in the play marked the grave inevitability of violence within the families. As the tension was built up between Mercutio, a Montague, and Tybalt, the vexation of both the Capulets and Montagues became permanent.

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Tybalt illustrates passionate hate which makes him very impatient with the Montagues and leads to his own death and causes emotional distress to the Capulet family. Accordingly this can be seen when Romeo goes to the fest at the Capulets and Tybalt wants to kill him solely because he was present at the fest. This, by his voice, should be a Montague. — (to his PAGE) Fetch me my rapier, boy.

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