Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is app arently a tragedy of ill-judged materialisation cheat and its ensue complications. However, Shakespeare manipulates the heedless romance amidst Romeo and Juliet to entangle devil feuding families and uses the young lovers romance to connote the mistaken nature of the hoyden. The remainder mingled with the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the fact that for individually one regards their family as solely honourable and the other as entirely sinister. The dialogue betwixt Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a hammy reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries serve 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 betwixt an evil family and an honorable family, but sort of between two households, some(prenominal) alike in high-handedness (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of execution of the play as the star-crossed lo vers take their breeding (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 never-ending conflict between the two houses that plagues Verona and is a central unwrap of the play. The dueling is done solely on the basis of kinship and wonted(a) allegiances that pit the two families against each other with no acknowledgment other than their names. Both families are equal in emplacement and are equal in their contempt for the other with their but difference stemming from their name. \nRomeo and Benvolio attend the Capulet spreadhead in an attempt to equivalence Rosaline to the rest of the admired beauties of Verona (I.ii.86). Upon go in the feast, Romeo is immediately lovestruck by a woman he discovers to be a Capulet. As he is praising the b eauty of Juliet Capulet, Romeo completely forgets about ...