We know that the servants are prepared to be violent when in conflict because Sampson says ‘draw if you be men, Gregory, remember thy washing blow’. This shows that Sampson and Gregory, the Capulet servants, are prepared because Sampson tells Gregory to remember what they had been told about what they should do is they meet any Montague’s. This also shows that the Capulet’s have been planning a fight with the Montague’s. Another quote that shows that servants are prepared for conflict when Sampson says ‘I have fought with men, I will be civil with maids, I will cut off their heads’. This means that Sampson isn’t scared of anyone, and when he says that he will cut off the heads of maids, he is saying that it doesn’t matter who they are, or what their status is, he will fight anyone. He is also saying that he may seem civil, but he could suddenly change, and then he will kill you, if he needs to.
Benvolio (Montague) and Tybalt (Capulet) are both in conflict because they are part of each of the houses, and become involved when the families start to fight because of their hatred for one another. Their personalities are totally different because Benvolio just wants to stop the fighting to keep the city of Verona peaceful for everyone. ‘I do but keep the peace, put up thy sword’. This quote shows us that he is the peacekeeper, as he is telling everyone to stop fighting. A reason for this is Benvolio just wants to try to stop the fighting by just talking about everything so that the fighting will stop for good. Tybalt’s personality is the opposite to Benvolio, we know this because he says, ‘peace, I hate the word’. This shows us that he is an aggressive person because he doesn’t want to stop fighting and talk, and that he just wants to fight. The quote also shows the reader that the only thing that he wants to do is to fight for the house of Capulet.
The Prince of Verona’s attitude towards the conflict is very much the same as Benvolio. He has the same views as Benvolio, like the fact that he doesn’t like the fighting between the two houses, and he is always trying to stop the houses from fighting and to keep Verona civilised. ‘Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets’. This shows the reader that the fighting between the two houses is affecting the whole city of Verona, because now the streets are noisy and violent, whereas before the fighting started, they were quiet and civilised.
In Act 1 Scene 1, the prince warned everyone that if he ever caught anyone fighting ever again, then their punishment would be execution. But no one paid any attention to him, and in Act 3 Scene 1, the families started to fight again. This makes the character of the prince has no respect, becuase if he did have his respect, then everyone would listen to him, and the fighting would have stopped ages ago.
The conflict between the houses starts again as Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio meet the Capulets, and Tybalt wants to fight Romeo, but Romeo refuses to fight against the Capulets because his love shares the name of Capulet. Tybalt was angry with Romeo becuase Romeo gatecrashed a Capulet party.
Benvolio and Mercutio both have conflicting roles in this scene because when they meet up with Tybalt, they mock him which starts the fight again between the two families. Mercutio’s personality at the start is that he is ready for a fight, he might even want a fight with the Capulets. This is becuase at the begining, Mercutio it just trying to intimidate the Capulets which worked because in the end a fight broke out. I do think that Mercutio is the main cause of the conflict because of the lines ‘good king of cats…’ beucase this is winding up Tybalt, and ‘come sir, your passado’, which is telling Tybalt that he wants to fight, and Tybalt never walks away from a fight.
When Mercutio is dying, he curses because he just wants it to end before anyone else gets hurt in the conflict between the two houses. One of his curses are ‘a plague on both your houses.’ This could mean that Mercutio just wants everyone from the two houses do die as well before any innocent people get hurt. I think that Mercutio is mainly responsable for the conflict in this scene because it was him who mainly winding up Tybalt.
We learn quite a lot about Romeo’s character and his role in the conflict in this scene. One of the things that we learn about his character is that he doesn’t want to fight Tybalt because he is Juliet’s cousin, and that also means that when he marries Juliet, he will be family. This means that even though he may not like Tybalt, he is still willing to pull out of a fight with. He is experiencing emotional conflict because he doesn’t know whether to fight Tybalt of not, this also means that he has to chose between his family had his love.
Romeo’s personality changes later on in this scene because Tybalt attacks and kills Mercutio, and it is partially Romeo’s fault that his best friend is dead. Mercutio went to fight Tybalt because Romeo wouldn’t. So now Romeo is feeling guilty because it should have been him how fought against Tybalt. These wild mood swings demonstrate his emotional conflict because his best friend had been killed, he doesn’t care whether or not Tybalt is going to be family, so Romeo ends up attacking Tybalt anyway, which finishes with Tybalt’s death.
The consequences of the conflict in this scene ends up with two people being killed, Mercutio and Tybalt. Due to his actions, Romeo has been banned from the city of Verona. He then thinks that fortune is against him all of the time. I think that Mercutio is to blame for the conflict in this scene because he could have just ignored Tybalt, which would have meant that the fighting wouldn’t have started in the first place. This also means that Mercutio and Tybalt wouldn’t be dead and Romeo wouldn’t be banned from Verona.
At the start of Act 3 Scene 5, Romeo’s line at the beginning of the scene creates conflicting images and it represents that as the day comes, they both have more problems. Juliet’s premonition is important because later on in the play, they both end up dieing themselves.
Capulet wants Juliet to marry Paris because he is he thinks that he is a good man from a good family, and Capulet becomes more and more angry because Juliet refuses to marry him because she doesn’t love him and that she hates him even more than the Montagues.
In this scene, Juliet is torn between her family and Romeo, which is causing her emotional conflict on her behalf. The fact that Juliet stands up to her father in this scene shows the reader that her loyalty ultimately lies with Romeo. This type of conflict has caused events to spiral out of her control because she is so worried about Romeo, that she just doesn’t care about her family anymore, all she wants is to be with Romeo. By the end of this scene, her mother has left her, and her mothers last words to Juliet were ‘talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee’. This shows that her mother doesn’t want anything to do with Juliet if she is going to live with a Montague. She is also disowning Juliet as if she is a disgrace to the family for not marrying Paris, and for marrying a Montague instead.
