The surviving characters Benvolio, Nurse, Friar Lawrence, Lord and Lady Capulet, Lord Montague, and Prince are all punished with the deaths of family and friends. The Prince sums up the end with: Where be these enemies?... (5.3.301-305) Even Prince has suffered from the recent violence with the loss of Mercutio. ... For example, after the big street fight in which, Mercutio and Tybalt are killed, he tells of Romeo's fault to Prince, while knowing that Romeo, his cousin, could be put to death. ...

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The prince who said if people fight justice will be done and lady Capulet wants Romeo dead because he killed Tybalt but the prince knows Romeo wasn't full to blame so he banish him from Verona instead of killing him. ... This is all because of this scene The main characters in this scene are Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, Benvolio, Prince and lady Capulet. ... In this scene she tries to make the prince make the decision on what she wants which is Romeo dead, which is a overreaction this is all like her. ... Prince will dress proper because he is a prince and doesn't see life as a...

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The Lords both see the fight and are about to join the fight but are stopped when the prince comes in and they are told that if this happens again they will be executed. ... The prince finds out and banishes Romeo from Verona because of his actions. ... The Prince confronts Lord Montague and Lord Capulet that because of their hatred towards each other, their children have suffered death. ...

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After the gas station brawl has come to an end, the prince, manifested here as the chief of police, dispatches his men to detain the two families responsible for this show of violence. ... The prince banishes Romeo from Verona Beach. ... The prince orders his men not to shoot Romeo, and he is allowed to enter Juliet's vault. ...

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Literature like Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic due to many different reasons. It ha been read for hundreds of years and will be for hundreds more. Many different causes contribute to this. The parent child conflicts are universal, almost every generation of adolescents have gone through end...

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Benvolio is a symbol of peace while Tybalt is a symbol of violence and hatred. Benvolio sounds as if it was taken from the word "benevolent" which means expressing goodwill. Similarly, Benvolio is a peacemaker and expresses goodwill by always trying to avoid conflicts by suggesting settling their fr...

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When Romeo finally does fight him to get revenge, he ends up killing him and thus gets exiled as the Prince promised earlier in the play. ... The Prince contributes by exiling Romeo near the beginning of the play. ... The Prince doesn't really play much more of a part than this. ...

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When Romeo finally does fight him to get revenge, he ends up killing him and thus gets exiled as the Prince promised earlier in the play. ... The Prince contributes by exiling Romeo near the beginning of the play. ... The Prince doesn't really play much more of a part than this. ...

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As a result of this rash act, Romeo is then banished from Verona by the prince. ... "I wholeheartedly believe that if both families had listened to Prince Escalus at the beginning of the play many of the characters would not have had to suffer as much as they actually did. ... In my opinion, the parents of the lovers are definitely to blame for the tragic dimension to this play, because if the feud had ended when Prince Escalus had intervened in the start of the play, the play definitely wouldn't have been considered a tragedy at all. ...

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One day Prince Esculus, ruler of Verona, had had enough a decreed that "If ever you disturb our streets again your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace." The Prince had hoped that this would solve the problem and it did .. for a while. ... When Prince Esculus heard about what Romeo had done he banished Romeo from Verona for the rest of time. ...

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The Prince banished Romeo from Verona, to where what could be a nice town of Mantua. ... He refuses to stay in Mantua, as of now we are heading straight back to Verona, no matter what the prince has in for him. ...

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They both think that if Romeo would have died in the fight against Tybalt or if the Prince would have given Romeo a death sentence it would have been better. ... Friar Lawrence just keeps saying how lucky Romeo has been to not be killed and that banishment is "kind mercy" from the Prince. ...

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While hiding at Friar Lawrence's cell, Romeo learns the Prince has banished him and he expresses that he would rather die than be banished. ... - Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,- taking thy part hath rushed aside the law- and turned black the worddeath? ...

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Mercutio also creates an interesting situation for the Prince of Verona he is directly related to him. This means that the prince is immediately affected by the feud and so was possibly harsher on Romeo than he needed to be. ...

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At the end of the scene where Prince Escalus says that if the two families fight again there will be deaths, Luhrman's version, he has used the modern day equivalent of a prince, a police general, this is good because there are no princes in modern day cities so Luhrman has used the next best thing, a modern day equivalent of a prince. ...

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In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families ("Deny thy father and refuse thy name," Juliet asks, "Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I'll no longer be a Capulet" II.ii. 34-35); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet's garden II.i); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet's sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76-78). ... Paris, a kinsman of the Prince, approached Lord Capulet with the intent of marrying his fair daughter, Juliet, bu...

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The Chain Reaction In William Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet, the death of a character named Tybalt caused a chain reaction of unfortunate events in the play. Which causes things to go terribly wrong for the couple and makes it almost impossible to maintain the survival of their love. During ...

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Romeo and Juliet essay In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet, the father of Juliet was a good citizen and a good husband, but was quite strict. He was a very strict father because he was selfish and wanted Juliet, who was only 13 years of age, to get married with Paris instead of her innate lo...

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"I am fortune's fool". To what extent is Romeo a victim of fate? In the famous play "Romeo and Juliet"; unfortunate events and the notion of fate both play important roles. Romeo is very melancholy at the start of the play because Rosaline has just rejected him. However he soon finds...

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In Benvolio and the Princes case, we learn of their personalities which stay the same throughout the rest of the play. ... The Prince, in the opening scene, is exposed as an authoritive figure with much control. " On pain of death, all men depart." ...

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When Tybalt kills Mercutio it causes Romeo to retaliate and kill Tybalt, this results in Romeo being exiled from Verona when the prince arrives. Benvolio proves this when he speaks to the Prince upon his arrival, "Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay....

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"Montague" and "Capulet" are no longer simply known by their last names but are "Ted Montague" and "Fulgencio Capulet", and "Escalus - prince of Verona" is now known as simply "Captain Prince - Chief of Police". ...

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If Romeo had not let his anger build up over Mercutio's death and had gone to tell the Prince of Tybalt's wrongdoings, he could have saved himself from being banished. ... This rash decision by Tybalt conjures up the Prince's decision to come up with the death penalty between the two houses, that stresses the ill feelings between the royal families even more, which ends up forcing the marriage of Romeo and Juliet to be clandestine that is the starting point for a manifold of problems. ...

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Romeo feels compelled to avenge Mercutio's death because Romeo distracted Mercutio causing his death; Romeo completely ignores the fact that the day before the prince had said death to any Capulets and Montagues who fight again. ...

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In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, love is a destructive force. However, we can't say it is the most harmful. We must consider other key themes in the play such as hate and fate. These forces all aid the eventual deaths of Juliet, Romeo, Paris, Mercutio and Tybalt. These powers are all simil...

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