romeo and juliet - violence and conflict

• what are the two types of conflict that shakespeare present?

  external which we see through the capulet and montague households and internal which is the struggles that characters feel mentally about the situations around them
• "that villain romeo (...) i'll not endure him" - tybalt 1.5


  tybalt is very quick to anger and is loyal to the capulet household

  believes that it is his responsibility to protect the family
• "hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch!" - lord capulet 3.5 


  treating juliet like a traitor by saying he wants to hang her

  angered by juliet's refusal to marriage as it meant there would be no alliances created between the capulets and paris' family

  this was seen as very disrespectful in the elizabethan era
• "hang, beg, starve, die in the streets" - lord capulet 3.5


  use of violent imagery and listing

  presents the extent of lord capulet's anger

  also shows the level of respect that he has for juliet when she does not obey his orders
• "have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets" - prince 1.1

  shows the effect of the conflict on others outside of the families

  violence and conflict has become a regular occurrence in verona

  their conflict is corrupting the lives of other people
• "deny thy father and refuse thy name (...) and i'll no longer be a capulet" - juliet 2.2

  shows juliet's internal conflict

  saying that romeo should not be a montague if he loves her, but is willing to also not be a capulet for him

  displays that she doesn't believe in their names limiting who they are able to love
• "what's montague? it is nor hand, nor foot" - juliet 2.2

  shows juliet starting to become more desperate about the speciality of their names

  trying to show the audience how meaningless a name is

  may also be trying to get the audience to sympathise with her