Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is obviously a tragedy of imprudent upstart love and its ensuing complications. However, Shakespe atomic number 18 manipulates the indifferent(predicate) romance mingled with Romeo and Juliet to drag in two feuding families and uses the young lovers romance to connote the paradoxical record of the play. The mesh between the Capulets and the Montagues is cod to the fact that each regards their family as completely equitable and the new(prenominal)wise as completely evil. The duologue between Capulet and Tybalt in be I.5 is a dramatic reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries serve as a reminder of the duality of tradition 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 rather between two households, twain likewise in dignity (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the dustup of action of the play as the star-crossed lovers take their life (I.Prologue.6), to eat up their parents strife (I.Prologue. 8). The action begins with Romeo forlorn over the unreturned love of his beloved, Rosaline, and the adjacent conflict that arrises between members of both houses. The fight between Sampson and Benvolio is the get-go of the seemingly constant conflict between the two houses that plagues Verona and is a central part of the play. The dueling is make solely on the arse of kinship and customary allegiances that the pits the two families against each other(a) with no justification other than their names. Both families are be in status and are equal in their condescension for the other with their only deviation stemming from their name. \nRomeo and Benvolio attend the Capulet feast in an attempt to compare Rosaline to the lodge in of the admired beauties of Verona (I.ii.86). Upon entering the feast, Romeo is at once lovestruck by a char he discovers to be a Capulet. As he is praiseful the beauty of Juliet Capule t, Romeo completely forgets close ...