Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is obviously a catastrophe of imprudent young mania and its ensuing complications. However, Shakespeare manipulates the heedless romanticism mingled with Romeo and Juliet to entangle devil feuding families and uses the young loers romance to express the paradoxical nature of the play. The encounter surrounded by the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the detail that each regards their family as altogether honorable and the opposite as completely evil. The dialogue between Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a dramatic reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries facilitate as a varan of the duality of customs and people.\nShakespeare begins Romeo and Juliet with a prologue that insists that the pushing is not between an evil family and an honorable family, tho rather between 2 households, both alike in dignity (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of attain of the play as the star-crossed lovers convey their life (I.Prologue.6 ), to bury their parents encounter (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 ostensibly constant conflict between the dickens houses that plagues Verona and is a primeval part of the play. The dueling is done all on the basis of kinship and customary allegiances that pit the two families against each other with no justification other than their names. some(prenominal) families are fitted in status and are equal in their contempt for the other with their only difference stemming from their name.\nRomeo and Benvolio run into the Capulet feast in an try to compare Rosaline to the rest of the respect beauties of Verona (I.ii.86). Upon entering the feast, Romeo is immediately lovestruck by a woman he discovers to be a Capulet. As he is praising the stunner of Juliet Capulet, Romeo comp letely forgets about ...