'Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet'

'Romeo and Juliet is obviously a tragedy of rash young cheat and its ensuing complications. However, Shakespeare manipulates the heady squeeze amidst Romeo and Juliet to entangle cardinal feuding families and uses the young l all overs romance to connote the contradictory nature of the fly the coop. The involution betwixt the Capulets and the Montagues is ascribable to the fact that all(prenominal) regards their family as on the whole honorable and the different as entirely savage. The dialogue amongst Capulet and Tybalt in spell I.5 is a spectacular reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries parcel out as a reminder of the dichotomy of customs and people.\nShakespeare begins Romeo and Juliet with a prologue that insists that the conflict is not between an evil family and an honorable family, precisely rather between 2 households, both(prenominal) alike in dignity (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the fertilize of action of the play as the s tar-crossed lovers sprout their life (I.Prologue.6), to polish off their parents strife (I.Prologue. 8). The action begins with Romeo forlorn over the unreturned love of his beloved, Rosaline, and the quick conflict that arrises between members of both houses. The fend for between Sampson and Benvolio is the foremost of the seemingly unvarying conflict between the two houses that plagues Verona and is a central dowery of the play. The dueling is done alone on the dry land of kinship and universal allegiances that pit the two families against each new(prenominal) with no defense other than their names. two families are couple in experimental condition and are fitting in their disdain for the other with their only when difference stemming from their name. \nRomeo and Benvolio accompany the Capulet feast in an attempt to liken Rosaline to the rest of the respect beauties of Verona (I.ii.86). Upon entering the feast, Romeo is this instant lovestruck by a woman he d iscovers to be a Capulet. As he is praising the debaucher of Juliet Capulet, Romeo completely forgets about ...'