I’ll like to discuss when Romeo heard about the death of Juliet and got so furious and went ahead to poison himself and how Juliet also killed herself after finding the dead body of Romeo. But the important thing about the play is the reconciliation of both parents after realising it was their feud that caused the death of their children and later came back together in peace.
William Shakespeare used dramatic devices in many different ways, for example, the beginning of the scene of Act 3 scene 1. He (William Shakespeare) made it so dramatic that the reader can predict what is going to happen without much reading, i.e. “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: the day is hot, the Capulets abroad, and, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; for now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring” Benvolio said. We can see from this sentence that Benvolio is a peacemaker and he gave a sensible warning about two things to Mercuito. First he advised him to take a rest indoors because the Italian summer was quite very hot. Secondly, he also warned him about the members of the Capulets on the street that will always want a fight.
Another way William Shakespeare used dramatic device is how events follows in rapid succession. For example when Benvolio and Mercutio were talking at the beginning of the scene, Tybalt came in, in a very short moment. This shows that, William Shakespeare did not waste much time. Nevertheless William Shakespeare also used dramatic device by showing the vivid way the personality of each character is painted, this helps the reader to imagine how the character looks. For example “…thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast…thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg full of meat…” said Mercutio. He said again, “good king of cats…will you pluck your sword out of this pitcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out”. We can see from these sentences that Mercutio is a person that cracks jokes.
On the other hand Tybalt is the exact opposite of him. He always wants to fight and he never forgives. For example “Mercutio, thou consort’st with Romeo…Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford no better term than this,--thou art a villain”. We can also see from these sentences that Tybalt always wants to fight.
The main reason why Romeo never wanted to involve himself in a fight was because, first, he’s a young romantic and peacemaking man. Secondly, he was in love with Juliet and was Tybalt’s cousin so he never wanted to make war with Tybalt because of their relationship, even when Tybalt challenges him to fight he is not interested in any family feud.
Mercuito was first outraged at Tybalt’s abuse to Romeo and him (Romeo) not actually giving any concern or worry about it. Then he went ahead to draw his own sword out to face Tybalt in a fight. His impulse and not ready to fight especially in the case of the Capulets, got him into losing his own life in the fight at the end. But at the interference of Romeo to stop the fight, Mercuito tried to avoid Tybalt’s sword but Tybalt’s fencing was accurate to kill. Mercuito was combining both houses (Montagues and Capulets) even when dying. This shows this course on the Montagues trying to fight the Capulets for his Romeo.
Tybalt was known for violence and always wanted a fight whenever he come across with the Montagues and their friends especially Romeo. Although he was dead, he had already caused another fight by annoying the peaceful Romeo to take vengeance on his friend’s deaths which lead Romeo to kill him too. The Prince (Escales) hears about the fight and did what he called a “strict justice” and banished Romeo from Verona.
The scene was made as exciting as possible so as to cover the sad and bad part of the violence and conflict in the play to make every other scene level up so as not to make it a dull and sad a story.
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