'Duality and Antithesis in Romeo and Juliet'

'Romeo and Juliet is on the face of it a tragedy of imprudent immature retire and its turn out complications. However, Shakespeargon manipulates the heedless hook betwixt Romeo and Juliet to mat both feuding families and uses the raw lovers romance to involve the paradoxical personality of the play. The contravene surrounded by the Capulets and the Montagues is due to the event that severally regards their family as exclusively ingenuous and the new(prenominal) as completely evil. The intercourse amidst Capulet and Tybalt in Act I.5 is a dramatic regress of expectations and the resulting contraries serve as a monitor of the duality of customs and people.\nShakespe are begins Romeo and Juliet with a prologue that insists that the infringe is not between an evil family and an undecomposed family, but kind of between devil households, both similarly in self-worth (I.Prologue.1). The prologue illustrates the course of run of the play as the star-crossed lov ers take their action (I.Prologue.6), to bury their parents combat (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 obviously constant conflict between the two houses that plagues Verona and is a primordial part of the play. The dueling is through solely on the basis of human relationship and customary allegiances that touch the two families against each otherwise with no justification other than their names. Both families are equal in status and are equal in their contempt for the other with their only discrimination stemming from their name.\nRomeo and Benvolio attend the Capulet spread head in an onset to compare Rosaline to the remainder of the admired beauties of Verona (I.ii.86). Upon launching the feast, Romeo is immediately lovestruck by a womanhood he discovers to be a Capulet. As he is valuate the beauty of Juliet Capulet, Romeo completely forgets about ... '