Tybalt's Downfall

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“Two households, both alike in dignity… where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”(1). The person who bloodied those hands, is a member of the Capulet family. Within the conflict of these two families there were many unfair deaths that took place. The fault belongs to a Capulet fellow named Tybalt with a disrupted soul and mind.

Tybalt was always trying to fight instead of controlling his temper. He was always trying to get into a brawl with the Montagues. He would have killed Romeo at the party, if it wasn’t for Old Capulet. “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy…. now, by the stock and honor of my kin, to strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”(20). Tybalt should have held his temper and not counted everyone

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