Minor characters in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare had a great deal of importance leading up the cause of Romeo and Juliet's death. Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, and Prince Escalus are minor characters that had a strong influence on the direction of the plot. Of the many minor characters that influenced the direction of the plot, Friar Laurence was the ... said, "If you ever disturb our streets again your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace- (I, I, 94-95). So, when Romeo killed Tybalt, the Prince had to impose a punishment to enforce the law by saying, "And for that offence imm...

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... , Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Lady Montague, all dead for love's sake. 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?- Capulet, Montague, See what scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds mean to kill ... your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsman. All are punished. (5.3.301-305) Even Prince has suffered from the recent violence with the loss of Mercutio. From the sens...

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... leads to Tybalt and Benvolio joining the fight to kill each other. 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. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-strain steel If ever disturb our ... up stabbing Mercutio and Mercutio says A plague o both your houses! (pg 1047: 95) before he dies. Romeo avenges his friend Mercutio's death and slays Tybalt and Romeo runs away. The prince finds out and banishes Romeo from Verona because of his actions....

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... , and eventually slays him in order to avenge the death of his friend. "O, I am fortune's fool!" As a result of this rash act, Romeo is then banished from Verona by the prince. Obviously, this adds more complications to Romeo and Juliet's already troubled relationship. Clearly, both the feud and the forbidden relationship cause many tensions, and tragedies in the play. The most ... could have certainly been avoided. "If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. "I wholeheartedly believe that if both families had listened to Prince Escalus at the b...

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... find him constantly harassing Romeo and trying to start a fight. 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. Romeo getting exiled means that when Friar Laurence and Juliet plans their devious scheme, Romeo is not able to hear about it straight away. In ... only skin deep. He never really gets to know Juliet. If he did, then she may have liked Paris better than Romeo, which would completely cancel out everything else. The Prince contributes by exiling Romeo near the beginning of the play. Romeo ...

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... Montagues face off at a gas station rather than the Italian market. The feuding families" wield 9mm handguns named "swords." 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. These men show up in helicopters and police cars ... to get his revenge on Tybalt by crashing into him with his car, then taking his gun, with the name "dagger" on it's handle, another reference to the book. The prince banishes Romeo from Verona Beach. After her father attempts to f...

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... been enemies. Verona, the battlefield for an epic battle between two super powers of society. Loyal followers, employees and family members of both sides fighting in the streets. 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. That evening Capulet held a gala ball to which only invited guests could attend. Romeo, son of Montague ... the murder of his friend. When Romeo found Tybalt he dueled him ...

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... find him constantly harassing Romeo and trying to start a fight. 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. Romeo getting exiled means that when Friar Laurence and Juliet plans their devious scheme, Romeo is not able to hear about it straight away. In ... only skin deep. He never really gets to know Juliet. If he did, then she may have liked Paris better than Romeo, which would completely cancel out everything else. The Prince contributes by exiling Romeo near the beginning of the play. Romeo ...

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... what could've been evil, was actually sad and despaire. Oh, how I feel sorry for sweet Romeo, but really he's lucky to still be alive for what he's done. The Prince banished Romeo from Verona, to where what could be a nice town of Mantua. At least he can still start a new life, and that's all that matters. To be continued Balthasar ... Romeo and I can't bare the grave sadness in his eyes. 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. We made it to Verona, and we snuck into the Capulet's graveyard but Romeo was t...

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... is much worse than if he would have died or gotten a death sentence. 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. Romeo thinks it would have been better simply because he wouldn't have to live the hell knowing the Juliet ... don't really discuss the same things. Friar Lawrence just keeps saying how lucky Romeo has been to not be killed and that banishment is "kind mercy" from the Prince. Nurse doesn't understand how Juliet cares more about the man who killed her cousin and ho...

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... wasted deaths. Benvolio keeps the play moving by reporting events but Tybalt does that by initiating conflicts. In act 3 scene 1, after Mercutio died and Prince Escalus comes into the scene, he conveys the whole incident to the Prince. Instead of reporting events, Tybalt initiates conflicts that drive the storyline further into chaos and disorder. He ignited a conflict between Mercutio and himself and ... ...

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... plot by killing Mercutio. 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." (III.i.160). Friar Lawrence contributes to the plot by sending Friar John ... ...

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... , "either thou or I, or both, must go with him" (3. 1. 134). 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 behavior comes up again when Balthazar tells Romeo of Juliet's death and Romeo goes straight to the ... drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee./Have at thee, coward!" (1. 1. 71-73). This rash decision by Tybalt conjures up the Prince's decision to come up with the death penalty between the two houses, that stres...

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... a conflict with their parents. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet has to go through a forceful marriage with a person she doesn't know. Juliet is forcefully pressed into marrying Paris, a kinsman to the Prince. Sir Capulet forces her by telling her if she doesn't marry Paris, he will disown her. Many girls all over the world go through the same dilemmas. Many parents want ... characters that contribute to the feud. Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and unknowingly gets into fights with Tybalt and other Capulets. Mercutio is Romeo's best friend and is a kinsman to the prince but is on the side of the ...

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... not know that he is fighting with family. Another one of Romeo and Juliet's Ironies is Romeos reaction to his banishment. 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. Romeo says,Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say,death,?- For exile hath more terror in his look ... death. Do not saybanishment?(IIIiii,13-15)Friar Laurence scolds Romeo for saying such things and says? O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness!- Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,- taking thy part hath rushed aside the law...

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... to social structure easily internalized. "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". The characters are effectively brought in from another century and put into more reachable roles that the viewer will immediately identify and classify ... ...

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... servants for the Capulets, insulted the Montagues servants Balthasar and Abraham by biting his thumb at him. This leads to a fight, which involves the Lord's of both families and the Prince. No death occurred, but the families attitudes against each other were worse then before. Which caused a lot of prejudice against the families that lead to violence. In like manners, another ... . Instead of a Capulet killing a Montague, in Act five Scene three, a Montague kills a Capulet as prejudice leads to violence. In the Capulets Tomb at night, Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the Prince has ...

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... servants for the Capulets, insulted the Montagues servants Balthasar and Abraham by biting his thumb at him. This leads to a fight, which involves the Lord's of both families and the Prince. No death occurred, but the families attitudes against each other were worse then before. Which caused a lot of prejudice against the families that lead to violence. In like manners, another ... . Instead of a Capulet killing a Montague, in Act five Scene three, a Montague kills a Capulet as prejudice leads to violence. In the Capulets Tomb at night, Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the Prince has ...

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... the Montagues, and Juliet, of the Capulets. A brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague in the streets of Verona. It ends with Prince Escalus forbidding any further brawls and issuing an edict that will impose a death sentence on anyone caught dueling. Meanwhile, young Romeo of the house of Montague has been infatuated with ... Rosaline, a niece of Capulet. Romeo confides to his friend, Benvolio, that he is in love with Rosaline but she does not return his affections. Meanwhile, Paris, a kinsman of the prince, seeks Juliet 's hand in mar...

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... kill herself, and all these events lead to the death of the two "star crossed lovers". 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. Mercutio's death supply's the audiences with ... ...

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... partly had to do with their death. When Friar Laurence married Romeo and Juliet, he advised them to make their marriage public, reconcile with his friends, beg pardon from the Prince, and bring Romeo back from Mantua, to end the family feud. But Lord Capulet had other ideas, such as moving the wedding date a day earlier, announcing Paris and Juliet's wedding ... hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned and some punishe"d. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. - Prince (Act V, Scene iii, Lines 305-310) ...

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... understand that the "star-crossed lovers" are going to die, this reinforces our knowledge of fate in the play. For Romeo and Juliet, fate seems to be a negative thing. The prince says that "heaven finds means to kill your joys with love" referring to how fate is hurtful and is causing death and destruction to the families. But perhaps fate has ... ...

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... light; more dark and dark our woes!" (3.5.36) The moral of the story is to not break social norms. In the end, after Rome and Juliet had died, the prince proclaims that there is "a glooming peace," so sad that "the sun for sorrow will not show his head." (5.3.316) The sun, a symbol of light, feels sad ... ...

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... ignorance, resulting in the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo was a character that acted before knowing all the information, and it cost him his life. After Romeo killed Tybalt, Prince banished him from the streets of Verona. From there he moved to Mantua and awaited news from the Friar. When he did not hear anything from Friar he decided to ... ...

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... did he killed Tybalt, thinking that he had bad luck he said, "Oh I am fortunes fool"( ). When Tybalt had killed Mercutio Romeo and his friends should have went to the prince to let him know what had happened instead of going crazy and killing his cousin in law. If I was in his position I would have reported what had happened and why ... ...

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