Peaceful characters

• All the peaceful characters act as a foil to juxtapose the violence and ultimately fail, rendered helpless foreshadowing the tragic ending
• The prince is a vessel to show power and brutality transcends authority and desire for peace becoming a victim of the feud
• Benvolio embodies reason and moderation striving to diffuse the conflict
• Friar is a vessel to show how futile it is to create peace in a post-reformation society yet also represents corrupt catholic society
• Romeo and Juliet try to maintain peace by subverting societal values yet it causes them to become stigmatised as their quest for peace becomes futile
• With purple fountains issuing from your veins
• Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
• I will be deaf to pleading and excuses
• And I for winking at your discords have lost a brace of kinsmen
• Part fools you know not what you do
• Put up your sword, or manage it to part these men with me
• I'll know his grievance
• Examine other beauties
• Romeo's hand did slay
• Romeo spoke him fair
• Could not take truce with the unruly spleen of Tybalt deaf to peace
• This is the truth or let benvolio die
• These violent delights have violent ends
• Mad men have no ears
• Unreasonable fury of a beast
• Our romeo
• Pupil mine
• If thou darest I'll give thee remedy
• Myself condemned and myself excused
• Doth with their death bury a parents strife
• Fire eyed fury be my conduct now
• O happy dagger