Romeo's cousin, Benvolio is what some people say a pathetic peacemaker and tries to stop the confrontation but Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt and another Capulet enter and sees Benvolio’s sword drawn and makes it even worse. This makes aware that this is a place where swords are drawn for very
little or no reason at all and that nobody should insult the family he stands for. Finally, the fight is broken up by Prince Escalus, then he forbids any further fights and says that if the peace is disturb they will pay with their lives.
The fight ends, but the hate between the families grows bigger. Benvolio, Lord Montague (Romeo's father) and Lady Montague (Romeo's mother) are the only people still in the scene and Lady Montague is concerned for Romeo because he had been seen outside Verona.
The next scene with dramatic tension is Act 3 Scene 1 where Romeos best friend, Mercutio is murdered by Tybalt. This scene starts with Benvolio talking to Mercutio (Romeos best friend) and Benvolio does not want to meet the Capulet’s and warns Mercutio that everyone is in a bad mood and there is almost certainly going to be a fight between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s.
When Benvolio and Mercutio were talking, Tybalt and some other Capulet enter looking for Romeo because Romeo was at the Capulet ball and didn’t have an invitation and since he saw him at the ball, he has been seeking for revenge. Mercutio makes “smart “replies to Tybalt and tries to look for a fight but Romeo then enters. Romeo doesn’t want to fight Tybalt, so Tybalt tries to insult Romeo so that he will fight him and calls him things like a villain. This is the first time in the play that Tybalt and Romeo had had a face to face confrontation and is a different type of conflict to the one of Act 1 Scene 1. Tybalt really wants to fight Romeo and is desperately seeking revenge; however, Romeo refuses to fight him because he had just secretly married Tybalts cousin, Juliet.
Another scene that has high tension is Act 3 Scene 5, where Juliets mother tells Juliet that she is to marry Paris the following Thursday, however, Juliet refuses to marry him and says she is not in love with him, then Juliets father enters and this builds up even more tension and he changes from very calm to very angry the moment he finds out his daughter had refused to marry Paris and starts shouting at her.
This essay shows that Shakespeare uses language and the plot to build up the tension in some scenes. And that Romeo and Juliet’s look like things in real live. For example Capulet and Montague’s are two big gangs. And that the police is Prince Escalus.
