Romeo and Juliet By: Steff Commentary This section may appear to readers as unimportant because it is just Capulet and Tybalt talking and nothing happens. On the contrary, this passage illustrates how the characters handle situations given. This may foreshadow problems for each character such as maybe future aggressive conflict with Tybalt. The character Capulet is all a façade. He appears warm hearted and eager to end the conflict at first but then you see his real intentions and his real state of mind is focused on “what the people want” and not what is best for Romeo under the given circumstances of the families’ feud.
Romeo and Juliet Essay Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet potrays many violent images , particularly in Act 3 scene 1 .This scene is a consequence of the previous scenes. Shortly after the servants brawled in the streets, Romeo gatecrashes the Capulet’s party. Tybalt is furious and goes after Romeo for revenge. Romeo who just married Juliet refuses to fight Mercutio, despite keeping his family’s honour. Of course, Mercutio and Tybalt , who is oblivious to this fact is disgusted at his reluctance to put up his sword.
When Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice at the party, he orders his servant to “fetch him his rapier” and views “striking [Romeo] dead” as “not a sin” because of the “stock and honor of his kin”(Shakespeare I. vi. 62,66-67. Tybalt immediately tries to attack Romeo upon recognizing his voice and in order to defend his pride, feels the need to show Romeo (and guests) who is superior by having a duel with him. However, when Tybalt is forced to leave Romeo alone due to Capulet’s orders, he becomes very vengeful as his ego is hurt because he finds it insulting to be unable to fight a Montague in his presence. Tybalt clearly is motivated by self-interest because he mainly thinks about defending his pride, and thus, has the urge to kill Romeo at a party without thinking about the disgracing the Capulet name.
Cal The antagonist is Cal. Cal is clearly the opposing character. He may seem as is if he is the victim, but all he does is deliberately attack Andre’s mother not understanding her situation and position. According to the play, Cal states “How many of us don’t want to hurt our mothers and live in mortal terror of their disapproval. Our lives aren’t furtive, just our feelings towards people like you” (50).
He does not know her lover is Dimmesdale at this point so he can only go to Hester and hold the letter above her head, taunting her in a sense, in the hope that she will give in and say the name. When Hester perseveres and does not say the name he threatens her lover by saying, "My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon, —thence, peradventure, to the gallows!"(208). Chillingworth swears that if he finds out who Hester’s lover is he will surely throw her lover into a dungeon to
“Friar Lawrence, less ambitious and more desperate than his fellow manipulators, does not hope that Juliet’s death will dissolve the families’ hatreds but only that it will give Romeo and chance to come and carry her off” (Snyder). At this point Romeo and Juliet’s relationship could not solve the problems between the families and the Friar was only uniting them. This is what made the Friar so repulsive. Even now after deaths and family issues, He treated the situation like a game. “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent (4.1.69-71).
William Shakespeare establishes Benedick’s character by using diction and imagery to show his changed viewpoint on marriage. Benedick is strongly opinionated and rarely ever let’s his guard down when it comes to feelings or love. After he overhears that Beatrice is in love with him, he ponders what to do. The characterization is established through diction, “And wise, but for loving me; by my troth it is not addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her!” (II.3.235-237). He is saying that is might not be wise for loving him, but he swears it won’t be stupid for he is going to be “horribly” in love with her.
She is completely unable to control her feelings for her only love, “I must love a loathed enemy” [I, v, 139]. The way that Shakespeare uses “must” is very interesting because although the households are enemies she must go against her parents will because she loves Romeo. No longer did her parents support her instead she was rejected. When Juliet rebels against marring Paris, “He shall not make me a joyful bride” [III,v,117]. Lord Capulet becomes enraged of this defiant behaviour, “An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend / an you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, / For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee” [III, v, 192-4].
Parks’ actions, and the main character in Iniation and Antigone, greatly demonstrate and support that being an individual in beliefs will raise awareness about the interval’s beliefs and change the corrupt thinking of a group. In the play, Antigone, by Sophocles, the main character, opposes the ruling of her king/uncle, Creon. When her brother Polynices, dies in battle, Creon proclaims that due to his actions, he will remain unburied outside of the town. Antigone, Polynices sister, refuses to accept this, and out of honor and bride for her brother, she discretely buries him. Creon, later, finds out about Antigone’s actions and sentences her to death.
Act three scene two, Macbeth is telling Lady Macbeth of another dirty deed he is thinking to precede. He expresses his fear of having Banquo and his sons in his way of becoming king. He tells Lady Macbeth not to worry until the deed is done, for he has