“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;”
(Shakespeare page 377). The true killer of love. An unforgotten feud, that ruined the lives of all; while no one even knows how it started. Romeo and Juliet's lives/ marriage was ruined by the hatred between their parents. It all started with the feud. No one knows exactly how it started, but it has been a tradition that has lasted for generations until death due us part. Or in this case the death of their children. There are different versions on how the feud started. Like they both …show more content…
The only way that could work would be- if she was the cause of the feud,” (David Blixt). A love triangle again, could it have started with the parents and brought down to the children. “Romeo’s mother, engaged to a young Capulet, runs off with a young Montague instead. That’s certainly cause for a feud, especially if young Capulet and Montague were friends. Best friends, childhood friends, torn apart by their love for a woman. A feud, born of love, dies with love,” (David Blixt). Just like with Juliet was supposed to be married to Paris, but instead she goes and marries Romeo instead. The feud started with the love between the parents and ended with the love/death of the kids. “This explains so much in the play – Lord Capulet, Juliet's doting father, suddenly threatening to kill her for refusing to marry the man he’s chosen for her. He tells her to ‘hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’ – this from a man who has called her ‘the hopeful lady of my earth.’ His fury seems to come out of nowhere and is brutally excessive. But if his own bride-to-be had jilted him and run off with his best friend,” (David Blixt). Giving it the mostreasonable answer to the cause of the