tybalt

• Tybalt


  Juliet's cousin, associated with the Capulet family
• Tybalt


  • One of Romeo and Juliet's antagonists
  • Starts fights, attempts to start fights, or makes pre-existing fights escalate
  • Has a particular hatred for Romeo
• Tybalt slaying


  Romeo is banished from Verona and separated from his wife
• Possible views of Tybalt


  • Violence personified
  • Extreme family loyalty
  • Embodies the feud between the Capulets and Montagues
• Tybalt: 'What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.'
• Tybalt: 'I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.'
• Tybalt finding out Romeo is at the Capulet ball


  Tybalt is willing to attack Romeo despite causing a scene
• Tybalt: 'Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.'
• Benvolio: 'Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to his father's house.'
• Mercutio: 'He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion; he rests his minim rests, one, two, and the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a dualist, a dualist; a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause: ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the hay!'
• Mercutio: 'Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives.'
• Tybalt exits after killing Mercutio