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