Romeo And Juliet: Violence And Bloodshed
For a love story, Romeo and Juliet has more violence and bloodshed than most TV mini-series. The Play begins with a riot, ends with a double suicide,and in between has three murders. And all this takes place in the span of four short days.
Of course, when your're dealing with love and passion, your're operating on an elemental level. The funny thing is that they have their roots in the same soil. How many times have you seen love turn to hate, and vice versa, in a blink of any eye?
Love and hate are twin sons of different mother, seperated at birth. They have a doubleness. This ambiguity is reflected throughout Romeo and Juliet, whose language is riddled with oxymorones. "O ...
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on "climate" in Harold Rose's Yur Guide to Northern Italy, I noted that "Italy is a very hot place in the summer, also quite humid."
After reading this I then realized that a great deal of the violence in Romeo and Juliet become more understandable; they're all short tempered because of the heat! This is even noted when Benvolio warns Mercutio that " The day is hot, and Capulets abroad/And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl/ For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." Unfortunatley, he warns too late, and the brawls he wished to avoid is met in the form of Tybalt.
The mad blood stirring...Think back a few summers, was there ever a time in you life in when it was so hot during the summer u wanted to kill somebody? Tempers explode when it's hot. Here in Illinios, at the end of a ten day heat wave, a newspaper reported a knife fight had broken out when a man asked another, "Hot enough for you?"
The connection between heat and violence is well-known and documented. ...
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