 Studying Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare? Let's discuss the character of Prince Escalus in Act One, Scene One. The adjective rebellious shows he's really angry at the Montague's and Capulets once more disrupting peace and Verona. This caesura shows how this food has been so destructive to the city. The words enemies and profaners belong to the semantic field of antagonism. This rhetorical question shows how stubborn the Montague's and Capulets are. The metaphor beasts shows how anger brings out the worst in us. The words steel, rage, torture and weapons belong to the semantic field of war. The assonance of A in an airy word shows how really minor issues cause huge conflicts. He threatens if ever you disturb our streets again which increases the dramatic tension. Your life's shall pay its personification. Here he threatens whoever disturbs the peace will be killed. He talks to both Capulet and Montague and these two imperative sentences show him stamping his authority in Verona.