Inheritance of Hatred Romeo and Juliet, and Sports Teams
The Packers and Bears rivalry started in Sunday November 27, 1921. The series is tied at 94-94-6 and tension between the teams and their fan bases are high. Inheritance of hatred and rivalries are very similar. Inheritance of hatred can go on for generations and sometimes even longer just like rivalries between sports teams, and fans who support sports teams. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, inheritance of hatred can cause people to act irrationally or act without thinking about what they were doing. Both families the Montagues and the Capulets inherited hate from their family members that lived before them, just like in the rivalry between the Packers and the Bears the teams and …show more content…
I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward!” Benvolio is a montague and he is one of the few that tries to keep the peace between the two families. When Tybalt is asked by benvolio not to fight Tybalt insults Benvolio at starts to try a fight. Tybalt had no reason to do this, Benvolio or any other Montagues didn’t say or do anything besides being there. The inheritance of hate Tybalt had gotten from his family drove him to try and stir up trouble with the Montagues, which he did. Additionally, later in the play Tybalt attempts to go and fight Romeo after seeing him crash the Capulet’s party. “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.” Tybalt was mad at Romeo for going to the party unnoticed by anyone else but him. He Confronted Romeo and Told him to fight him in a duel. Tybalt did not have to confront Romeo and try to make him fight. He could have just let it go. If he had seen someone else crash the party he wouldn’t have thought of it again, but since it was Romeo, who was a Montague, he made a big scene about it. As seen in both of these examples Tybalt made an irrational decision based on his hatred for the Montagues he inherited from his
The Packers and Bears rivalry started in Sunday November 27, 1921. The series is tied at 94-94-6 and tension between the teams and their fan bases are high. Inheritance of hatred and rivalries are very similar. Inheritance of hatred can go on for generations and sometimes even longer just like rivalries between sports teams, and fans who support sports teams. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, inheritance of hatred can cause people to act irrationally or act without thinking about what they were doing. Both families the Montagues and the Capulets inherited hate from their family members that lived before them, just like in the rivalry between the Packers and the Bears the teams and …show more content…
I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward!” Benvolio is a montague and he is one of the few that tries to keep the peace between the two families. When Tybalt is asked by benvolio not to fight Tybalt insults Benvolio at starts to try a fight. Tybalt had no reason to do this, Benvolio or any other Montagues didn’t say or do anything besides being there. The inheritance of hate Tybalt had gotten from his family drove him to try and stir up trouble with the Montagues, which he did. Additionally, later in the play Tybalt attempts to go and fight Romeo after seeing him crash the Capulet’s party. “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.” Tybalt was mad at Romeo for going to the party unnoticed by anyone else but him. He Confronted Romeo and Told him to fight him in a duel. Tybalt did not have to confront Romeo and try to make him fight. He could have just let it go. If he had seen someone else crash the party he wouldn’t have thought of it again, but since it was Romeo, who was a Montague, he made a big scene about it. As seen in both of these examples Tybalt made an irrational decision based on his hatred for the Montagues he inherited from his