At last the prince arrives and he stops the big fight. Now there is silence and tension gets higher and higher. The chaos mood is stopped. There is fear because of this very famous person. The mood is tense now.
The theme of violence and conflict has been used within the play Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare explores these themes through the play characters found in the opening scene. For example Samson insults Abram and Balthazar by biting his thrums at them he says:” I will bite my thumbs at them. When a person bites his thumb at another person this is an insult because biting a thumb means that the person hates. This would let the other person be very angry and because this person is angry there will be a conflict. Therefore when the conflict doesn’t and there might be a fight and only because of thumb biting.
As we can see Tybalt is an aggressive, violent and quarrelsome person. It is really clean when he insults Benvolio and challenges him to a fight. He says: “I hate the word. And I hate hell, all Montague’s, and thee! Have at thee, coward!”, and so they start to fight. Tybalt insults Benvolio by challenging him coward and says that he hate all Montague’s. Benvolio will be very furiously because Tybalt did not insult only him no he insults the whole Montague’s family. Therefore Benvolio did not only want to fight for himself, no he would never fight because he is a peace maker. So he fought for his family. Tybalt knew that he knew that when he insults Benvolio family he would start to fight. Tybalt loves fights and conflicts he is exactly the opposite of Benvolio that’s why he hates him more.
Sampson and Gregory are really cowardly people and they are really rude to the Frontages they only start to fight when someone is with them to show how brave they are. We can see it very clearly when Georgery openly challenges the Montague’s servants to a sward fight, because, he saw Tybalt coming so he started to fell save and started to fight. Georgy started to challenge them by saying: “Do you quarrel sir?” he feels safe because in these moments he noticed Tybalt who was coming. And the fight started with the rude words of Sampson when he says: “draw if you be men” Georgy remember thy washing blow.” After these words they started to fight as Sampson said “Draw it if you be men!” he lets Abram and the other servant get very angry because with this rude phrase he tests their masculine side, and in this time it was really important to show how brave they are. So they had to show everyone that they are men and not woman, by starting to fight them and to make this senseless conflict bigger and bigger.
There are lots of words and phrases in Romeo and Juliet that we only use when we have a conflict or when we want to fight. For instance, when Tybalt insults Benvolio in such a rude way that Benvolio has to fight or at least gets angry about this. The rude words he used are:” Have at thee, Coward!” the word coward is an really bad insult for the people in Shakespeare’s time, the 16th century, because coward means a person who is easily frightened and who avoid dangerous or difficult situations, and this is exactly the opposite of how the men have had to be in this time. They have had to be strong, brave and never scared about anything. That’s why Benvolio had to be angry. Had to start a fight, so coward is a really a reason to start a conflict!
