#tybalt

thinking about tybalt capulet makes me very sad. he was brought into this feud, with this anger towards montagues, because of everyone around him, all the capulets despising montagues, and then at his families party, montagues, specifically romeo, the SON of the montgues manages to slip in, so of course, he’s angry and ready to fight, just as he was taught. but when he speaks to his uncle about it. his uncle CONDEMNS HIM. FOR DOING WHAT HE WAS TAUGHT. then the next time we see him, is romeo and juliet’s literal wedding day, and he’s ready to fight. romeo doesn’t want to fight, so mercutio does, and tybalt ends up killing mercutio and leaving, but he returns, determined. he and romeo fight, and he dies. he dies for a cycle of violence. in my production of the show, we have in the prologue, our tybalt say the line “and the continuance of their parents rage” and that’s what he is. a continuation, a fighter, brought up in this violent world. he is so tragic.