Romeo and Juliet: The Tragic Death of True Love

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The ancient feud has become citywide and the citizens of Verona have become obsessed with depreciating anyone from the rivaling household. During a fight between the Capulets and Montagues, Benvolio attempts to establish peace and Tybalt replies, “What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”(1.1.68-69). Tybalt’s primary opinion of all Montagues is prejudice. His automatic instinct is to portray hatred towards the Montagues without any knowledge of who they truly are. The hatred is embedded into Tybalt results in a violent and selfish character. Most of Verona acts in a corresponding manner. Subsequently, Romeo and Juliet fear their love is forbidden and revolt against their parents’ hatred and secretly fall in love. Association with someone of the rivaling family would be a disgrace, provoking the desperate need to conceal all affiliation with someone from the opposing family. After realizing their love is “star cross’d,” ...

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witnessed in the Capulet house. Romeo therefore must be cautious when he meets in secret with Juliet. Neither Romeo nor Juliet’s families know about their love for each other, which results in a hidden marriage. After the death of Tybalt, Juliet speaks with her mother and states, “Indeed, I never shall be satisfied/With Romeo, till I behold him-dead-/Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vex'd. /Madam, if you could find out but a man/To bear a poison, I would temper it/That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, /Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors/To hear him named, and cannot come to him, /To wreak the love I bore my cousin/Upon his body that hath slaughter'd him!” (3.5.94-103). ...

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