A Feud Filled Love
The Tragic Tale of Romeo and Juliet
The Feud That Ended Love
The feud tore the two families apart and caused a long lasting civil discord between them; therefore, the feud is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Initially, for generations there has been a feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. Nobody has any idea how the feud started or why it is still going on. Romeo, a Montague, meets Juliet at a Capulet party and they instantly fall in love with each other; unfortunately, thanks to the feud between their families, they can never be truly together without taking major risks. After finding out that Romeo is a Montague, Juliet mournfully says to herself, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” (Act:I Scene:V). Juliet is in love with Romeo, but is upset to find out that he is a Montague, she is a Capulet, and it is dangerous to love someone who is supposed to be an enemy. Secondly, the hate between their families is keeping them from being together. Juliet, along with the help of Friar Lawrence, makes a desperate plan to escape a marriage with Paris and get to Romeo in Mantua; unfortunately, the plan goes terribly wrong, and Romeo comes upon the body of his beloved Juliet, yet he kills himself. Juliet then kills herself after awakening to see Romeo dead. Montague, Capulet, and the Prince come across the bodies of these two faithful lovers, to which the Prince exclaims, “Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.” (Act:V Scene:III). Their families’ hate resulted in Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths, for they could not be together even after they got married. The feud took everything away from everybody involved, including the Prince, who did nothing to end this feud, and in result, lost some of his family as well. It was only because of this unfortunate death that the Montagues and the Capulets were able to finally end their feud and live in peace. The feud takes all joy, and leaves only pain and misery behind.
Prologue
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-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Two families of high social class that live in Verona are involved in a violent feud that has led to fighting and now murder. The two children of these families, destined for love, kill themselves, trying to make peace between their two families, and end the feud that keeps them apart. The growth of their love only fueled the rage between the families. Only their deaths could end the wretched feud that tore their families apart.
Song- Enemies by Shinedown
Listen up
There's not a moment to spare
It's quite a drop from the top
So how you feeling down there
It's a cold, cruel, harsh, reality
Caught, stuck, here with your enemies
Who do you think you are?
Tearing us all apart
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows
It's 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run
You got the world on it's knees
You're taking all that you please
You want more
(You want more?)
But you'll get nothing from me
You're like the burden we bear
You're all the hate that we share
You want more
But you'll get nothing from me
Were enemies!
Enemies!
You started something that you just couldn't stop
You turn the ones that you love
Into the angriest mob
And the one, last, wish is that you pay for it
And there's, no, way you're getting out of it
Who do you think you are!
Tearing us all apart
Where did you think you could go?
'Cause everyone already knows
It's 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run
You got the world on it's knees
You're taking all that you please
You want more
(You want more?)
But you'll get nothing from me
You're like the burden we bear
You're all the hate that we share
You want more
But you'll get nothing from me
But enemies!
Enemies!
Enemies!
Where did you think you could go
'Cause everyone already knows
It's 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run
You got the world on it's knees
You're taking all that you please
You want more
(You want more?)
But you'll get nothing from me
You're like the burden we bear
You're all the hate that we share
You want more
(You want more?)
But you'll get nothing from me
You got the world on it's knees
You're taking all that you please
You want more
But you'll get nothing from me
You're like the burden we bear
You're all the hate that we share
You want more
(You want more?)
But you'll get nothing from me
But enemies
Enemies!
Enemies!
Movie- Roseanna McCoy
Like the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, these two families are in an everlasting feud that has two lovers caught in the middle. Unlike Romeo and Juliet, the Hatfields and the McCoys know that the cause of the feud was the murder of a McCoy, and the Hatfield were most likely to blame since they were on opposite sides during the civil war. Johnse and Roseanna have trouble trying to keep their love alive while the love between their two families remains long since dead.