The play begins in Verona, a city that has had its peace shattered by the feud between two prominent families, the house of Montague and the house of Capulet. The chorus explains that amidst an ancient grudge. A pair of star-crossed lovers will take their lives which cause their parents to rage. Two servants from the house of Capulet, Sampson and Gregory, deliberately cause a fight with two servants from the Montague house, Abram and Balthasar. The nephew of Lord Montague tries to stop the fight at his arrival. Later the nephew of Lord Capulet steps in and brusquely urges to fight Benvolio. The outraged citizens become involved in a skirmish fight. Prince Escalus’s guards arrive at the scene and breaks up the fight. Prince Escalus declares that any further outrages will result in the execution of those who participate. The crowd then disappears leaving behind Montague, Lady Montague, and Benvolio. They realized then that their son Romeo, has been depressed and feeling down lately. Benvolio asks Romeo questions …show more content…
[Form] is what gives us the shapes of our world, the creation of the worldly stage and its objects within which we move. ... Form in this sense is primal vision and, far from escaping reality for empty shows, it becomes power that constitutes all the "reality" which we feel and know. A formalism deriving from such a fundamental notion of form precisely the notion of form which philosophers have left with us for two centuries--must be phenomenological as well as anthropological from its very outset. That even with events that will necessarily take place their unexpected is very important to cause excessive panic and delirious joy, while foreknowledge accustoms and calms the soul by experience of distant events as though they were present, and prepares it to greet with calm and steadiness whatever