The affect on the audience at this present time is that they can see the true extent of the hatred between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s and that it branches down to the families’ men and servants.
In response to the constant brawling between the Montague and the Capulet families, the Prince of Verona has issued a warning that he will impose a death sentence to anyone caught fighting.
From the beginning the audience is aware that Romeo went to Capulet’s ball and is now married to Juliet. In Act 3 there is a fight between Romeo and Tybalt over the fact that Romeo went to Lord Capulet’s ball. I know this because Tybalt say to Romeo “The love I bear thee, can afford no better term than this, thou art a villain” This means that Romeo is being called a villain by Tybalt and also that Tybalt feels that his name has been walked-all-over by Romeo.
This is one of the key scenes where the audience see what the consequences are of Romeo marrying Juliet and where they see Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt because he now has the same name as him, the name of a Capulet, and because if he does there will be more conflict and one of the reasons the Friar Lawrence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet was so that the conflict would end not carry on. In the end, it turns out to be Mercutio who fights Tybalt instead of Romeo and is killed by accident by Mercutio. Mercutio’s last words were: ‘A plague o’ both your houses’ this shows just how much conflict there is between to two families and just how much blood from both families has been spilt. After Mercutio dies Romeo then goes after Tybalt and then kills him in revenge for Mercutio I know this from the quote: “That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.” This quote show just how much hate there is in Romeo in the play.
The conflict is central to the play because for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to like each other they need to meet through closed doors of conflict between their two families otherwise they would just go out in openness and say that they loved each other in broad daylight but because of the conflict in the play nit gives the atmosphere and the heart and soul to the play.
The audience are made to feel about the conflict like they are there and watching it happen right before their very eyes this is why conflict is one of the main themes of the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ because it is an important aspect because without conflict it would not make sense. The difference between the conflict in Act 1 and Act 3 is that in Act 1 it wasn’t that much violence but in Act 3 the audience are shown how matters can escalate into worse situations for example, Mercutio’s death, Tybalt’s death and then Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.