Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is obviously a catastrophe of imprudent young bed and its ensuing complications. However, Shakespeare manipulates the heedless day-dream surrounded by Romeo and Juliet to entangle deuce feuding families and uses the young l overs romance to evince the paradoxical nature of the play. The impinge among the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the circumstance that each regards their family as exclusively honorable and the some other as completely evil. The dialogue amid Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a dramatic reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries dispense as a reminder of the duality of customs and people.\nShakespeare begins Romeo and Juliet with a prologue that insists that the run afoul is not between an evil family and an honorable family, alone rather between 2 households, both alike in dignity (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of execute of the play as the star-crossed lovers start out their life (I.Prologue .6), to bury their parents dissension (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 skin between Sampson and Benvolio is the first of the evidently constant conflict between the two houses that plagues Verona and is a rudimentary part of the play. The dueling is done just on the basis of family relationship and customary allegiances that pit the two families against each other with no justification other than their names. some(prenominal) families are rival in status and are equal in their contempt for the other with their only difference stemming from their name.\nRomeo and Benvolio go after the Capulet feast in an crusade 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 witness of Juliet Cap ulet, Romeo completely forgets about ...