Romeo and Juliet Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Shakespeare's Control of Tybalt.

Romeo and Juliet Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Shakespeare's Control of Tybalt.
This section contains 626 words
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Shakespeare's Control of Tybalt

Summary: This essay was written for a senior theatrical class. It describes Shakespeare's role in controlling and determing the life of Tybalt in the play. In this essay proofs are given toward Tybalt's evil disposition.
Reading about Shakespeare's usury through Tybalt, a whole story evolves around one man to create Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt in the play is depicted as an awful man. One line where Mercutio describes him explains it all, "More than Prince of Cats. Oh he's the courageous Captain of Compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song -- keeps time, distance and proportion. He rests his minim rests -- one, two and the third in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist! a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause.... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes." This means that Tybalt was more then just a Prince or Juliet's cousin but a threat to those who angered him. For his concern with matters of honor, Tybalt can be dishonorable, especially when he kills Mercutio with an unexpected blow...

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