What is the central conflict in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

There is all the family wars and the stabbing and arguing between the two families not to mention Juliet and Romeo stabbing themselves. All the most important characters (Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Tybalt) died by the blade.

Answer 2

Juliet Capulet and Romeo Mantague are the main characters. Juliet and Romeo's family hates each other. But they fall in love and secretly get married, since if everyone knew they were married it would be really bad since the 2 families hate each other. Then Juliet's family wants her to get hitched to this guy Paris, so she pretends she's dead to get out of it. Romeo thinks she's really dead, so he kills himself. When Juliet sees him dead,, she's all like, "OMG my soul mate is dead! How will I ever live without him! SOB SOB SOB!" And then she kills himself. The end.

Answer 3

There is no simple answer to that, but I would say most people would accept that the central conflict is: The conflict between the love Romeo & Juliet have for each other and the fact that their families hate each other.

Answer 4

Romeo and Juliet - Violence Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare, is a play which has a lot of violence. Prejudice leads to violence as shown in the play when the feuding families, the Montague's and the Capulet fight. In each case, disruption, fighting, injuries and Death occur. Also, the prejudice against the two families never got resolved because they were enemies. The prejudice started in Act one Scene one, when the Capulet and Montague servants confronted each other. Then the Capulet servants insult the Montague's. Which leads? To a street brawl of the two fighting families. Furthermore in Act Three Scene one, the prejudice between the families gets worse. When Tybalt wanted revenge with the Montague's, he then confronted Romeo and Mercutio and started a duel. In addition the prejudice between families got even worse, when Tybalt kills Mercutio. Also, in Act Five Scene three, Tybalt challenges Romeo to fight and Romeo kills him. Which lead to prejudice between the families? ,The street in Verona, a public place, is where the prejudice starts between the two families. In Act one Scene one, Sampson and Gregory servants for the Capulets, insulted the Montague's servants Balthazar and Abraham by biting his thumb at him. This leads to a fight, which involves the Lord's of both families and the Prince. No death occurred, but the families attitudes against each other were worse then before. Which caused a lot of prejudice against the families that lead to violence? In like manners, another duel between the two feuding families start up again in the street of Verona in Act three Scene one. When Mercutio and Benvolio friends of Romeo, are confronted by Tybalt, who is still prejudice against the Montague's. Tybalt thinks that they crashed the Capulets ball and know he wants revenge. Mercutio and Tybalt fight between each others. Now Romeo arrives trying to stop the arguments. Tybalt draws his sword and challenges Romeo. Romeo refuses to fight and Mercutio stops in to meet Tybalt challenges. Romeo again, steps in to stop the fighting, but Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm. Mercutio from this action dies from his injury and this caused disruption between the families which lead to prejudice. Instead of a Capulet killing a Montague, in Act five Scene three, a Montague kills a Capulet as prejudice leads to violence. In the Capulets Tomb at night, Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the Prince has come to pay his respect to his "lost" Juliet. When he hears the footstep of his enemies Romeo and Balthazar. Paris thinks Romeo has come to desecrate Juliet's grave in act of the prejudice against them. While young Romeo was only trying to see his only love dead. But Paris didn't know so he challenges Romeo to a fight and Romeo kills Paris. This event was caused due to prejudice that leads to violence which included injuries, death and disruption. From examining Romeo and Juliet, it is evident that the play shows how prejudice leads to escalating violence when the opening brawl started by the servants, the duel between Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo and Paris. So it is evident that Romeo and Juliet, is a play that shows how prejudice leads to escalating violence between the feuding families. this is the answern is a great one lol use this....x

Answer 5

In this play, love and tragedy are portrayed. The characters fall in love and then they die in the end. It is a great example for English literature and it is written by a great writer, William Shakespeare.

Answer 6

Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. The Montagues and the Capulets have this family fued that has been going on for years, and they hate each other, even though nobody remembers why. Romeo and Juliet fall in love, and secretly get married since if everyone knew they got married it would be bad. Then the Capulets want Juliet to marry this guy Paris, so Juliet pretends she's dead to get out of it. Then Romeo thinks that she is REALLY dead, and then kills himself. Then Juliet is like, "OMG my husband's dead!" So then she kills herself too. And then everyone is upset. The end.

Answer 7

There is so much violence in Shakespeare's plays for the same reason there is so much violence in the movies: audiences love it, and they always have. Of course, there is a great difference between individual plays: Titus Andronicus is so violent that generations of schoolteachers won't even talk about it, whereas in As You Like It there is no violence at all, unless you count a Wrestling match, and in Timon of Athens the most he does is shout and throw plates around.

Answer 8

Violence is central to the play because Romeo and Juliet are from two feuding families which makes their love forbidden and creates the plot. It also becomes central when Romeo kills Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and is banished from Verona for his crime, complicating his relationship with Juliet. Romeo's actions lead to his and Juliet's deaths.

Answer 9

the play Romeo and Juliet is a very violent one and Shakespeare incorporated violence in to in seamlessly. There is verbal violence and physical violence and it helps build up the tension.