Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is obviously a cataclysm of imprudent young sleep together and its ensuing complications. However, Shakespeare manipulates the heedless reverie mingled with Romeo and Juliet to entangle dickens feuding families and uses the young l overs romance to proclaim the paradoxical nature of the play. The engagement amidst the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the item that each regards their family as tout ensemble honorable and the other as completely evil. The dialogue in the midst of Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a dramatic reversal of expectations and the resulting contraries mete out as a varan of the duality of customs and people.\nShakespeare begins Romeo and Juliet with a prologue that insists that the campaigning is not between an evil family and an honorable family, unless rather between deuce households, both alike in dignity (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of follow out of the play as the star-crossed lovers include th eir life (I.Prologue.6), to bury their parents encounter (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 fight between Sampson and Benvolio is the first of the evidently constant conflict between the twain houses that plagues Verona and is a rudimentary part of the play. The dueling is done only on the basis of chemical attraction and customary allegiances that pit the two families against each other with no justification other than their names. both(prenominal) families are touch in status and are equal in their contempt for the other with their only difference stemming from their name. \nRomeo and Benvolio copy the Capulet feast in an taste to compare Rosaline to the rest of the admire 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 beaut of Juliet Capulet, Romeo completely forgets about ...