Act two (good and bad relationships)

       
            The play "Romeo and Juliet" has many relationships both good and bad. An example of an unhealthy relationship would be Tybalt and Mercutio they hate each other. Mercutio hates Tybalt because he is in the opposite family.In act 2, scene 4, line 4, Benvolio mentions Tybalt and his threat Mercutio responds "A challenge, on my life" which translates to Mercutio laughing at the challenge and betting his life on it. Later in the same scene line 13 Benvolio asks who Tybalt is to witch Mercutio describes him as a "Courageous captian of compliments and fights as you sing pricksong" basically saying that Tybalt is a total pain in his butt.on the next page Mercutio is still describing Tybalt where he says "A very tall man, A very good whore!" As you can tell Mercutio is not to found of Tybalt and later in the play you learn that the feelings are mutual.  

An example of a good relationship would be Romeo and Friar Laurence they are buddies and in the play it seems like Friar always has Romeos back. In scene 3 of act 2 Romeo calls Friar father in line 22 "good morrow, father" we don't even hear of romeos real dad in the play so maybe Friar to Romeo is like Nurse to Juliet. To back that up, Friar reply's son "What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? young son,".Another example of Romeos and Friars good relationship was when Friar agreed to marrying Romeo and Juliet even though he could get killed if anyone found out.

I think that Shakespeare thinks that bad relationships are more commen because in the play there are way more bad relationships then good ones. Some examples of bad relationships are Juliet and her mom, lady capulet and Capulet, Tybalt and Mercutio, the Capulets and the Montagues Nurse and Mercutio and theres more. I think that Shakespeare thinks this way because in his time relationships were forced girls were "sold" to men and not many people did not know what true love was because most relationships were set up to make people rich.