There are many conflicts present throughout Romeo and Juliet. The one I am choosing to focus on is the conflict between Romeo and Tybalt. Romeo crashes the party at the Capulet establishment and is discovered by Tybalt. Though he cannot attack him then because Capulet forbids it, he later searches Romeo out. Tybalt then comes and challenges Romeo. However, Mercutio steps in in his place and is ultimately stricken down. This leads Romeo to get revenge by killing Tybalt. This conflict is person vs. person, seeing as it is between Romeo and Tybalt, but it also extends to family vs. family because Tybalt's reasoning for attacking Romeo is because of the feud between their two houses. This conflict is important because it shows the lengths Tybalt and his house are willing to go through to attack the Montagues, showing the huge amount of hate between the houses and later showing how powerful the force of the death of Romeo and Juliet to stop the fighting.
This conflcit can be related to because we always have someone who really annoys us. They may not know, or are even doing it on purpose, but they are still really exasperating. Oftentimes in real life this can lead us to violence or insults trying to get away from that one person. However, I think the play shows a good representation of how this is a bad idea, and how resorting to this only makes things worse and sometimes hurts those around you as well.
Overall, stabbing your enemies isn't always the best idea.
-Aaron
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