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Civil Blood In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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"...From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean..." These are the first few lines in the play Romeo and Juliet. It foreshadows that the families will have a tremendous hatred towards each other. The Montagues and Capulets are not the only ones that loath each other. In present day, so do the main rival gangs in Los Angeles - The Crips and The Bloods. In fact, gangs today share similarities to the houses of the Montagues and the Capulets seen in Romeo and Juliet, even though it was a different time period.
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