Romeo And Juliet Hatred Quotes

Bryce Boydon Allison Siggard English 9 15 May 2024 The Cycle of Hatred In the fight to defend your values, there is always one reason that persists through every one of these fights, it is why you and the opposing side can’t agree, and that is Pride. In Romeo and Juliet, members from both feuding families took pride in their name, believing they were better than the opposing family. This feud led members to believe they must fight to defend their family name against the opposing family. In this feud, during the fight to assert dominance, violence erupted arising from hatred for the other family, which was instilled into their family's beliefs. This violence ultimately leads Romeo and Juliet down paths to their deaths. The events leading to

I hate the word "soon". As I hate hell, all Montagues.”(I, IV, 70) Driven by hatred and family pride, he wishes to use violence to win the feud against the Montagues. Later he even extends an invitation to fight Romeo, because he was offended that Romeo, a Montague, would dare step foot in the house of the Capulets. After the party, Mercutio explains to Bevolio that, “Tybalt, the kingsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father's house, a challenge on my life.”(II, IV, 10) Tybalt is so angered by the presence of a Montague in his home that he thinks he must challenge him to a duel. The extreme anger from such a small gesture shows the amount of hatred the Capulets have towards the Montagues and the measures they are willing to take to make them pay. Such extreme measures of violence only lead to more violence, which in this play was the cause of death for the two young star-crossed lovers who were destined for doom. Someone who could be argued as the main reason for the deaths was Friar Lawrence, who was a common ground between the feuding families. Juliet sought him out for help because she believed he would only have it in his best interest to help her devise a successful escape