Violent Scenes in Romeo and Juliet

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Violent Scenes in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play that was written by William Shakespeare, it was about “Two households, both alike in dignity” when “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”, who die as a result of a feud between the houses of Capulet and Montague.

Even though the play is a romantic story there is a lot of violent conflict in many of the scenes. The play itself starts and ends with a Chorus, which explains the situation in “fair Verona”. The fights between both houses are the result of an ancient feud that saw the Capulet’s and Montague’s, who do not give way for each other. These feuds eventually are the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, which ironically is the reason why both families make peace.

“Romeo and Juliet”, was written by William Shakespeare roughly in 1600. William Shakespeare was born in 1564, in this year Galileo Galilei was also born. In 1582 William Shakespeare married and a year later his daughter, Susanna was born. In 1585 William Shakespeare had two children, twins by the names of Judith and Hamnet. By 1593 Shakespeare had written 8 plays and went on to write 3 more plays in the next year. From 1594 to 1608 Shakespeare had written 23 more plays, which included “Romeo and Juliet”, “Macbeth”, “Hamlet”, “Othello” and many others. By 1616 Shakespeare had died and was buried at Holy trinity Church, Stratford. William Shakespeare had died. However Shakespeare had written 42 plays and many sonnets, this was a great achievement during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st. the Queen had enjoyed going to the theatre and so did many other people, the audience liked to watch many types of plays written by William Shakespeare and many other leading play writers at the time.

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In act 1 scene 1 we see a fight scene and we also see Prince Escales for the first time, he enters as he give a warning to both Capulet’s and Montague’s as they disturb the quiet streets of Verona. The fight happens on at the house of the Capulet’s on a Sunday, the fight starts as Samson and Gregory deify the Montague’s, over looking this is Tybalt who tries to fight with Benvolio. Tybalt is Lady Capulet’s nephew, and Benvolio is a good friend and cousin of Romeo.

Tybalt uses his words as if they are Montague’s, ...

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