William Shakespeare's fictional tragedy, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set in fair Verona, depicts two warring households, both alike in dignity, the Capulets and Montagues. The feud results in the tragic fate of the pair of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet who took their lives due to their parent’s strife. The play explores how various forms of conflict was conveyed to reflect the era of the Renaissance when political turmoil and European nations were at war. Shakespeare represents the theme of conflict in three different forms, internal conflict, generational conflict and family feuding. Conflict is highlighted and dramatised within the play to grant it unpredictability, increase tension and represent that love cannot exist without hatred.
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Lady Capulet introduces Juliet to the concept of marrying “the gallant, young, and noble gentleman, the country Paris.” However, Juliet responds with rage, bitterness and ungratefulness as she cannot be unfaithful towards her beloved husband as her “love is as boundless as the sea.”. In the Elizabethan era, women from an aristocratic family were expected to obey their father, yet Juliet is opposing these traditionalistic mindsets as Paris “shall not make me there a joyful bride.” This forces her father to threaten to disown her using animalistic and threatening imagery to let her “graze… hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.” He labels her a “green sickness carrion,,, baggage and tallow face,” and conveys his anger as “my fingers …show more content…
Juliet experiences inner conflict numerous times as she is torn between expressing loyalty to her family, or Romeo who should be her enemy, as her “only love sprung from my only hate.” Her logical and mature attitude realised that their actions are “too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden” and she begins to doubt her self worth as she admits she should have been more strange, “as i was too quickly won.”Also, in Act III, scene 2, the nurse delivers the horrific news that Romeo killed her cousin, Tybalt, placing Juliet in an unfavourable position as she cannot “speak ill of him that is my husband,” although he was a “serpent heart hid with a flowering face.” The internal dismay continues as she doubts the Friar and questions if “the poison, which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead,” and questions her sanity as she states, “will i madly play with my forefathers joints and dash out my desperate
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Lady Capulet introduces Juliet to the concept of marrying “the gallant, young, and noble gentleman, the country Paris.” However, Juliet responds with rage, bitterness and ungratefulness as she cannot be unfaithful towards her beloved husband as her “love is as boundless as the sea.”. In the Elizabethan era, women from an aristocratic family were expected to obey their father, yet Juliet is opposing these traditionalistic mindsets as Paris “shall not make me there a joyful bride.” This forces her father to threaten to disown her using animalistic and threatening imagery to let her “graze… hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.” He labels her a “green sickness carrion,,, baggage and tallow face,” and conveys his anger as “my fingers …show more content…
Juliet experiences inner conflict numerous times as she is torn between expressing loyalty to her family, or Romeo who should be her enemy, as her “only love sprung from my only hate.” Her logical and mature attitude realised that their actions are “too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden” and she begins to doubt her self worth as she admits she should have been more strange, “as i was too quickly won.”Also, in Act III, scene 2, the nurse delivers the horrific news that Romeo killed her cousin, Tybalt, placing Juliet in an unfavourable position as she cannot “speak ill of him that is my husband,” although he was a “serpent heart hid with a flowering face.” The internal dismay continues as she doubts the Friar and questions if “the poison, which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead,” and questions her sanity as she states, “will i madly play with my forefathers joints and dash out my desperate