I think controversial, because things can look fake but sometimes they can look real. i don’t know though.
Flashbacks are used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory.
In this excerpt, the prince is an antagonist because he D. banishes Romeo.
Romeo just killed a person, for which the prince had to punish him, and he decided to present his punishment in the form of banishment of Romeo from Verona.