Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is obviously a cataclysm of imprudent young hit the hay and its ensuing complications. However, Shakespeare manipulates the heedless crush among Romeo and Juliet to entangle dickens feuding families and uses the young loers romance to involve the paradoxical nature of the play. The contrast amid the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the incident that each regards their family as on the whole honorable and the separate as completely evil. The dialogue surrounded by Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a dramatic reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries function as a reminder of the duality of customs and people.\nShakespeare begins Romeo and Juliet with a prologue that insists that the passage of arms is not between an evil family and an honorable family, exclusively rather between 2 households, both alike in dignity (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of live up to of the play as the star-crossed lovers dissipate their l ife (I.Prologue.6), to bury their parents discordance (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 contend between Sampson and Benvolio is the first of the obviously constant conflict between the deuce houses that plagues Verona and is a important part of the play. The dueling is done unaccompanied on the basis of affinity and customary allegiances that pit the two families against each other with no justification other than their names. both(prenominal) families are adjoin in status and are equal in their contempt for the other with their only difference stemming from their name.\nRomeo and Benvolio understand the Capulet feast in an onset 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 look er of Juliet Capulet, Romeo completely forgets about ...