How Does Tybalt Cause The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is a famous novel about two feuding families who have been fighting since the beginning of time. The two rival families are a very big part of the city of Verona, and their fighting angers the prince as every time they see each other they must fight. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, A capulet, meet at a Capulet party and instantly fall in love. The feuding eventually causes the deaths of many people in the kingdom, including the suicides of Romeo and Juliet, as they both believe the other is dead. Tybalt’s personality, his willingness to cause fights, and his death caused Romeo and Juliet to inevitably kill themselves.

In the beginning of the book, Tybalt’s personality portrayed is that he gets riled up easily. This personality that we see from him gets him in very harmful situations that not only makes the story more violent, but affects the plot of the story in a rough way. This shows his nature by him exclaiming,“What? Dares the slave
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The way he is causes his death because he just can’t back down from a fight. This death was one of the most important parts of the book, and influenced Romeo’s and Juliet’s death greatly. “Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? Even if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live. Therefore have done. Some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit.” (Act 3 Scene 5 Lines 68-72) Lady Capulet believes that Juliet is grieving over the loss of Tybalt, and she thinks that if Juliet marries Paris her grieving will subside. Capulet thinks the same thing as Lady Capulet so he does this to get closer to the prince and to make Juliet more happy. In reality though, Juliet is not only grieving about Tybalt's death, but also Romeo’s banishment. This causes Capulet to get angered at Juliet’s refusal to marry