Violence In Romeo And Juliet Essay

Violence can be small. It can be big. It can be something you see every day and it can be something that is hidden in plain sight. The one thing that we need to remember is that violence always has a repercussion.

The novel Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare was published between 1591 and 1596. This novel takes place in the beautiful city of Verona. Romeo the child of the Montague family and Juliet the child of the Capulet family fall in love when they meet at a costume party. Just as Romeo and Juliet meet, Romeo and his friends are forced out by Tybalt Juliet’s cousin. The Capulet family and the Montague family have a violent feud causing the love between Romeo and Juliet to be very difficult. Not only will the rivalry not allow this love but

Even after being kicked out Romeo stays near the Capulet house to talk to Juliet through her window. They declare their love to each other and create a plan to have Friar Laurence marry them secretly the next day. Tybalt finds out about the secret wedding and challenges Romeo but Romeo refuses. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, starts to fight Tybalt out of anger. As Romeo tries to intervene Mercutio is killed in the process by Tybalt. Blinded by anger Romeo fights Tybalt and kills him. In the end, the Prince banishes Romeo from Verona. While the Capulet family mourns Tybalt’s death Lord Capulet makes the decision to move Juliet and Paris’s wedding to the next day. Juliet and Friar Laurence make a plan to give Juliet a sleeping drought that will make her seem dead. This sleeping drought convinces everyone that Juliet died while the Friar sends a messenger to warn Romeo of Juliet’s plan and to get him to come rescue, Juliet. The messenger however never makes it to Romeo because there is a plague in town and he can not leave. Not knowing of the plan Romeo believes that Juliet has died and buys a poison from an Apothecary in Mantua. He returns to Verona to see Juliet’s tomb but stumbles across a mourning Paris. Romeo

In (Act 3, Scene 1, lines 15 and 20) Mercutio uses a pun to describe how violent Benvolio is. Mercutio states “Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes”. Mercutio is saying that even though Benvolio has no reason to be upset he will find the smallest thing to be upset about and fight someone because of it. Also in (Act 3, Scene 4, line 25), Capulet ironically says “For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, It may be thought we held him carelessly, Being our kinsman, if we revel much. Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, And there an end. But what say you to Thursday”? Romeo has killed Tybalt because Tybalt killed Mercutio in (Act 3, Scene 1, line 100). In (Act 4, Scene 5, line 60) Juliet’s father says after finding Juliet “Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now To murder, murder our solemnity? o child, 0 child! My soul, and not my child! Dead art thou! Alack, my child is dead, And with my child my joys are buried”. This talks about the death of Juliet and in this case, death comes from violence. The sentence describes what he is feeling giving us the imagery of not only the scene but also what he is feeling. And at the end of the novel in (Act 5, Scene 3, lines 290 and 295) the Prince states “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords, too Have lost a b~ace of kinsmen. All