Why are people prejudice to one another? The definition of prejudice is judging someone before knowing them. A person is prejudice to someone when they form an attitude toward a person or group of people before knowing anything about them. This is and has been a huge issue in our world and in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The play is full of prejudice acts as Two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love, but soon realize they are on opposite sides of a feud between their families and need to find a way to be together. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, one important theme that is still relevant to readers today is prejudice only destroys relationships and people’s lives, and this is shown
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In this scene Mercutio is mocking the Capulets and Tybalt is searching for Romeo because of his presence at the Capulet Party. Mercutio offers to fight Tybalt and Tybalt accepts the offer. They duel and Romeo tries to stop it, but he just gets in the way and mercutio is stabbed by Tybalt. Everyone thinks Mercutio is jking about it, but when they realize it’s true Romeo is angered and wants to fight Tybalt. He says either both or one of them will go with mercutio and the duel begins. He kills Tybalt and now Romeo realizes he has done something very bad. He will now struggle to be able to be with Juliet. The quote that supports their prejudice acts is “Good kings of cats,nothing but one of your nine lives” (Act III, scene i, line 81). Their prejudice actions are good lessons to readers that making problems bigger than they actually are has its consequences. In this scene two people lost their lives because of being prejudice that led to fighting and later death. I think that this could have all been avoided if both sides weren't so prejudice and if they hadn't gone to fighting for a resolution.
The theme in this play is that prejudice only destroys relationships and people's lives. Overall, the two scenes that show prejudice acts destroying lives is when the servants of both sides confront each other and fight and when Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo duel. This theme of prejudice destroys
In this scene Mercutio is mocking the Capulets and Tybalt is searching for Romeo because of his presence at the Capulet Party. Mercutio offers to fight Tybalt and Tybalt accepts the offer. They duel and Romeo tries to stop it, but he just gets in the way and mercutio is stabbed by Tybalt. Everyone thinks Mercutio is jking about it, but when they realize it’s true Romeo is angered and wants to fight Tybalt. He says either both or one of them will go with mercutio and the duel begins. He kills Tybalt and now Romeo realizes he has done something very bad. He will now struggle to be able to be with Juliet. The quote that supports their prejudice acts is “Good kings of cats,nothing but one of your nine lives” (Act III, scene i, line 81). Their prejudice actions are good lessons to readers that making problems bigger than they actually are has its consequences. In this scene two people lost their lives because of being prejudice that led to fighting and later death. I think that this could have all been avoided if both sides weren't so prejudice and if they hadn't gone to fighting for a resolution.
The theme in this play is that prejudice only destroys relationships and people's lives. Overall, the two scenes that show prejudice acts destroying lives is when the servants of both sides confront each other and fight and when Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo duel. This theme of prejudice destroys