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Romeo And Juliet Pernicious Quotes

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The Pernicious Feud in Romeo and Juliet In Act I, scene i, lines 85-87 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the prince says “Will they not hear?—What ho! You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins”. In other words, the Prince enters after the fight and yells at the Montagues and the Capulets and calls them fools for they keep fighting and fighting which just leads to more and more blood in the street. The word “pernicious” means very destructive or harmful, this word reminds me of a weed that grows slowly but ultimately after a while destroys an entire garden. Pernicious in the story is what's called The Feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. The feud is based …show more content…

But then of course the Capulets have to enter the bar with all the Montagues. It starts with Tybalt coming to Romeo and telling him to draw his sword. Romeo, just being married to Juliet privately trying not to fight with his now family, says that the Prince says no fighting. Then Mercutio overhears Tybalt and Romeo's conversation and says he's not scared to fight the “Prince of Cats”. Mercutio draws his sword, and so does Tybalt. Out of nowhere Romeo steps in the middle and yells “Gentlemen, for shame forbear this outrage! Tybalt. Mercutio. The Prince expressly hath forbidden this bandying in Verona streets. Hold on, Tybalt!. Good Mercutio!”(Act 3, Scene 1 88-91) Tybalt, not caring what Romeo says, slides his blade under Romeo's arm and draws blood to Mercutio's stomach. Not enough to kill him in a second, but just enough to kill him after a few minutes of suffering. But the scariest part of this is that right before he died he said 3 times, “A plague o’ both your houses!” (I.i.111). In this quote he is putting a plague on both houses because the only reason that he is dying is because of the pernicious

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