Saturday, September 12, 2015

In Act 1, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, how does Tybalt react to Romeo's presence at the party and what does Lord Capulet say about Romeo?

Inof
,is enraged by 's
presence at the party at which Romeo falls in love at
first sight with .
Tybalt says:

"What
dares
the slave/Come hither, coverd with an antic face,/
To fleer and scorn at
our
solemnity?/Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,/To strike him dead, I
hold it not a
sin."

Tybalt is quick to
be angry and assumes that
Romeo has come out of spite, to "scorn" the
Capulets, while Romeo has not come for
that reason at all, but out of motives
of love. Tybalt also expresses his willingness to kill
Romeo, which he does
not regard as a crime, to protect the honor of the Capulets.



In contrast to Tybalt,assumes that Romeo has good motives. Capulet
says:


"And, to say truth,
Verona brags of him/To be a
virtuous and well-governd youth:/I would not for
the wealth of all the town/Here in my house do
him disparagement:/ Therefore
be patient, take no note of him."



Capulet senses that Romeo is a well-intentioned person and asks

Tybalt to ignore Romeo's presence at the party. Instead, Tybalt answers with anger that
he will
not patiently tolerate Romeo's presence at the Capulets' party. When
Lord Capulet insists that
he do so, Tybalt answers: "this intrusion shall/Now
seeming sweet convert to bitter
gall." Tybalt means that he will store this
situation away in his memory as gall, or anger.
This scene foreshadows the
bitter fight between Romeo and Tybalt that will ensue later in the

play. 

 

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