Essay On Tybalt In Romeo And Juliet

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Tybalt's Hot-Headed Self

For my characterization I chose Tybalt. Tybalt is a character that is a hot headed character from Romeo & Juliet and is exasperated almost one hundred percent of the time. He can always find something that makes him angry and because of this anger he has, later events in the story happen because of him. His actions changed his fate throughout the story. In the very beginning of the story, Tybalt starts to tease the montagues, and starts a fight in the food market area. “What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.” (1,1,80) These scenes claim that he's hot headed and just wants to start things with people. He enjoys to tease people and more specifically the montagues. “What, drawn, and
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In his speech, you can tell he's willing to put lives at risk to fight their foe, Romeo.

In act III, scene 1, Tybalt comes up to Mercutio and Benvolio as Romeo enters. “Follow me close, for I will speak to them.
Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.” (III,1,1535)Tybalt then confronts Romeo, in this time Mercutio gets tired of him and defends Romeo and instead battles Tybalt resulting in both of their deaths. “Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence.”(III,1,1640) After this reaction of Benvolio of Mercutio's death enrages both Romeo and Benvolio. Benvolio and Romeo begin to fight with Tybalt resulting in his death. But, if Tybalt hadn't came up to them in the first place and let them be in peace it wouldn't have ended in two deaths. So, in my perspective I feel that tybalt was characterized as a hot head. In his actions of each of the acts you can clearly see he's not the nicest guy to others than his family. I've come to the conclusion of Tybalt that he is infuriated towards the montagues because of their