Tybalt

Role in Play
- The embodiment of hate and violence
- Contrast Benvolio and Romeo "furious Tybalt" 3.1 L 117

Tybalt is almost the embodiment of hate and vengeance in the play, the sort of youth that will eventually become a gangster.

He "hate(s) the word(peace) as (he) hates hell, all Montagues and" Benvolio, he will not "(draw) and talk of peace". While Benvolio enters the stage in Act I Scene I drawing his sword to part the servants, Tybalt enters with his sword drawn to fight.

He is a petty "princox" with a twisted sense of honour. Thinking Romeo, a Montague, was at the masque to "fleer and scorn at our solemnity" yet restrained by Capulet from harming him, he resolves to "convert to bitterest gall" this "sweet" moment of Romeo's. The next day, he rashly challenges Romeo to a duel because of the "injuries that thou hast done (him)".

As can be seen, Tybalt bears very deep grudges. It is a kind of blind hate that he has, for the feud between the two families exists in...