Conflict in Romeo and Juliet and in Life

There are many conflicts in this play, but there is one that really started all the misfortune in this tragedy. "Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, a villain that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night." Tybalt 1.5.69-71 Tybalt grows so angry at Romeo for coming the Capulet ball when he is a Montague. This feud leads to many others in the book...like the killing of Tybalt and Mercutio, the banishment of Romeo, and all the complications that come from those misfortunes. This specific conflict, though, is a society conflict with Tybalt making it a personal conflict.

There are conflicts of this nature in our life too. Many people still have some prejudice about someone else due to an aspect of their upbringing. Many of them are things that a person cant change either, like ethnicity or their social status and many other things that people are made fun of for. There are different ways that people deal with these conflicts. There's anger (as in Tybalt's and Romeo's case), there are the few cases where people try to work it out peacefully, there are the people who try to ignore it in hopes it'll go away, and then there's the people who try to fight it out. Most of the time, human nature is to fight it out, and you've seen how well that works out in the play Romeo and Juliet.

The Princess Bride is a movie about a beautiful girl who falls in love with a worker that lived on her farm. This worker (Wesley) was supposedly killed while at sea, and a few years later the beautiful girl (Buttercup) caught the eye of a prince and they were soon to be married. Wesley reappeared though, in time to fight for what he wanted...even though the marriage of a farm boy to this beautiful woman was unthinkable.