Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare was always a writer ahead of his time, and always knew how to set the mood of a scene. From the beginning of the first act, and scene of Romeo & Juliet, you could almost physically feel the tension between the Montagues and the Capulets. You could tell that they had such a bad feud between each other that even the servants from each family wanted to fight. It was also a very dramatic at the beginning, it seems as if things were about to go down, up until the prince came in. Everyone was happy and calm even when Romeo crashed the Capulet’s party, even Lord Capulet didn’t seem to mind it. It was a party, so of course everybody was happy, it was meant to lighten the mood.

As soon as Romeo’s eyes went to Juliet’s direction, he instantly fell in love with her beauty. Out of awe of her complexion, he give a whole speech about how beautiful he thinks she is. His “speech” was made to be dramatic. Romeo says, on line 53, “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”, but a few scenes ago, he was so heart broken about another girl that he couldn’t get with, he was basically head over heels for the girl named, Rosalin. Also, he compared to Juliet to so many things, Shakespeare actually managed put the feeling of love into words.

Tybalt’s reaction to when Romeo crashed his family party was not so positive. Romeo’s presence made Tybalt very angry. In fact, he was so angry, that he actually wanted to duel him. If Lord Capulet granted him permission, which he did not, on line 70, Capulet says, “I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement...” I think Tybalt would have put his hands on Romeo. Tybalt calls Romeo a disgrace, and an enemy. He warns Capulet that Romeo’s presence may be sweet now, but will be deeply regretted. I think that the line is a key to what might happen later.

It seems like Romeo and Juliet really hit it off when they met. Romeo being the huge flirt that