conflict

• 'Peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee' - Tybalt
• 'bite thumb' - conflict is so deep routed servants argue and insult eachother
• 'O I am slain' - Paris - conflict effected everyone - he was just trying to marry Juliet
• 'A plague O both your houses' - Mercutio


  'plague' - deadly disease

  Mercutio is wishing for the families to become infected and die for killing him

  'both' - shows how he was a bystander and yet now it has cost him his life

  'houses' - families/ households

  impacted audience as they had just suffered from a plague which killed many people
• 'deny thy father and refuse thy name'


  'deny' - verb - don't follow his orders - unheard of for women

  'father' - Capulet

  'refuse' - don't accept, miss the chance of finding her true love

  'name' - Montague

  shows conflict within
• 'turn and draw'


  imperatives

  Tybalt telling Benvolio to turn to him and draw his sword

  he is ordering him around
• 'o brawling love! O loving hate' -Romeo


  oxymorons

  shows conflict with he wants to love Juliet but can't because of the feud

  'Brawling' - verb - rough (rough love

  loving hate - shows fickle/love at first sight, shows how he loves Juliet but hate her families name