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Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--
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,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
. . .
[Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO]
The Prince is introduced in this scene because of the ongoing fight in the street of Verona between Montague and Capulet. We must learn from the Montague and Capulet families and ask ourselves in our everyday lives how much pain and suffering do we cause others due to our quarrels?
. For this time, all the rest depart away:
You Capulet; shall go along with me:
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our further pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place. It shows the trouble it causes the citizens, the severity of the fights, the problem with the Montague and Capulet families and the role of the Prince as a peacekeeper and judge in Verona. It proves that violence is effecting and upsetting so many people that the Prince had to places these consequences.
The first words said by the prince are: “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,-- Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts”.
I believe this passage proves the theme of “Violence not only affects the people involved but everyone around it” in William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. First, the rebels, the Montague and Capulet, are breaking the peace in Verona. Finally the Prince express the peoples plead to the Montague and Capulet to stop these civil brawls and says that they are foolish. ” This shows the severity of the problem.
Then the Prince goes on saying: “Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets, And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans, in hands as old, Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate: ” These lines demonstrate the anguish of the people. The Montague and Capulet families are fighting only because of the family rivalry and cause must pain to those around them. Then the citizens of the city are being disturbed by the brawls.
The third important thing the Prince says is: “If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. The city’s peace has been broken by three quarrels and made the citizens part of the Montague, Capulet hate.
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