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| The Montagues and Capulets are like fire and gasoline: they are both already burning with their hate for each other, but one or the other keeps pouring fuel, making the fire grow and grow. Their despise for each other is a continuous fight that only hurts the people in each family. In act one, scene one, men from each family start a fight on the street simply because they already hate each other. Sampson from the Capulets offends the Montagues, and Benvolio from the Montagues pulls out his sword. Tybalt from the Capulets then also pulls his sword, and attacks, starting a brawl. This is just one example of how these two families keep deepening their strong dislike for each other, making their hatred, or "fire," uncontrollable. Even the Prince could not stop the feud until many more people died. Until the families realize the damage they have caused, the fire keeps on growing. |
Friday, April 28, 2017
Act 1, Scene 1: The Burning Feud
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I like this analogy. Do you think that everybody has do die in order for the fighting to stop? I think that they just have to have a common enemy.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is like a match being put to an unlit puddle of gasoline. Do you think that the death of Romeo and Juliet acts like a fire extinguisher and eases some of the tensions between the two families?
ReplyDeleteI really agree with the metaphor you use here, I think the gasoline in this case is especially applicable given that sometimes someone can use gasoline accidentally to add to or start a fire, which is what happened with Tybalt and Benvolio.
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