Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is plain a tragedy of shortsighted tender esteem and its result complications. However, Shakespe be manipulates the heedless romance surrounded by Romeo and Juliet to entangle devil feuding families and uses the young lovers romance to connote the incorrect nature of the track down. The contest amongst the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the fact that separately regards their family as lone(prenominal) safe and the other as tout ensemble fell. The dialogue amidst Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a melodramatic reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries serve as a reminder of the duality 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, but kinda between two households, two alike in arrogance (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of natural action of the play as the star-crossed lovers take their action (I .Prologue.6), to bury their parents strife (I.Prologue. 8). The action begins with Romeo forlorn over the unreturned love of his beloved, Rosaline, and the immediate conflict that arrises between members of both houses. The fight between Sampson and Benvolio is the first of the seemingly invariant conflict between the two houses that plagues Verona and is a central lift off of the play. The dueling is done solely on the basis of kinship and commonplace allegiances that pit the two families against for each one other with no exculpation other than their names. Both families are equal in perspective and are equal in their contempt for the other with their only difference stemming from their name. \nRomeo and Benvolio attend the Capulet fete in an attempt to correspond Rosaline to the rest of the admired beauties of Verona (I.ii.86). Upon incoming the feast, Romeo is immediately lovestruck by a woman he discovers to be a Capulet. As he is praising the beauty of Juliet Capulet, Romeo completely forgets about ...