Two years before the earliest clash between the two families there was peace in Verona. Each person lived happily and there was no sign of discrimination. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague were both obsessed with owning large amounts of land. Both, having large sums of money, would purchase pieces of property that were close to them to expand their territory. It started out as a friendly game to see which would own the most amount of land at a certain amount of time. One would buy a large piece and the other would buy an even larger piece of land. This went on and on for a long while until arguments sprang up about who owned what and who's standing on whose property. In those days there weren't deeds or contacts stating who owned
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While the tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets grew, Mercutio came to know some of the members of the Capulet family, one of these people was Tybalt, the man who revived the family feud out of nowhere for seemingly no defining reason. Seeing past the annoyance of Tybalt’s immaturity, Mercutio had no initial quarrel with him, he seemed peaceful enough for his liking, so he typically left him alone. Over time, Tybalt became more and more of a nuisance, he began to antagonize and taunt the Montagues and intentionally tried to pick fights with them. Participating in many of these rage induced fights, Mercutio found himself in conundrum with his father who gave him an ultimatum to either stop hanging out with the Montagues, or find some way to end these fights. To preserve one of his few friendships, he decided to find some way to stop this unfounded skirmish. On the following days, Mercutio attempted to converse with Tybalt but to no prevail. After multiple attempts, he tried to talk to Lord Capulet about his nephew, but could get nowhere due to his state of severe intoxication. After this short encounter with Lord Capulet, Mercutio ran into Tybalt on his way out of Capulet’s manor, he did not seem to be in his best of moods at the time and called Mercutio out on his immaturity and how he betrayed the Capulet family by
While the tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets grew, Mercutio came to know some of the members of the Capulet family, one of these people was Tybalt, the man who revived the family feud out of nowhere for seemingly no defining reason. Seeing past the annoyance of Tybalt’s immaturity, Mercutio had no initial quarrel with him, he seemed peaceful enough for his liking, so he typically left him alone. Over time, Tybalt became more and more of a nuisance, he began to antagonize and taunt the Montagues and intentionally tried to pick fights with them. Participating in many of these rage induced fights, Mercutio found himself in conundrum with his father who gave him an ultimatum to either stop hanging out with the Montagues, or find some way to end these fights. To preserve one of his few friendships, he decided to find some way to stop this unfounded skirmish. On the following days, Mercutio attempted to converse with Tybalt but to no prevail. After multiple attempts, he tried to talk to Lord Capulet about his nephew, but could get nowhere due to his state of severe intoxication. After this short encounter with Lord Capulet, Mercutio ran into Tybalt on his way out of Capulet’s manor, he did not seem to be in his best of moods at the time and called Mercutio out on his immaturity and how he betrayed the Capulet family by