Conflict

Act 1 Scene 5: Capulet’s Ball – Tybalt notices Romeo

TYBALT

This, by his voice, should be a Montague.

Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave

Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,

To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

CAPULET

Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?

TYBALT

Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,

A villain that is hither come in spite,

To scorn at our solemnity this night.

CAPULET

Young Romeo is it?

TYBALT

'Tis he, that villain Romeo.

CAPULET

Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;

He bears him like a portly gentleman;

And, to say truth, Verona brags of him

To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:

This is the moment just after Romeo has found his true love. Why is Capulet’s hostile reaction significant to the play as a whole?

Best Romeo and Juliet Quotes About Conflict

“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”

“A plague o’ both your houses!”

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create!

O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”

“All are punished.”

“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.”