One encounters frequent references to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" but mostly in reference to the beauty and painful irony of their love affair. But that story is part of a larger one which Shakespeare introduces as:
One encounters frequent references to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" but mostly in reference to the beauty and painful irony of their love affair. But that story is part of a larger one which Shakespeare introduces as:
"Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
In the play, it happens (though too often doesn't) that the loss of two beloved children breaks the narcissistic madness that left a long wake of sorrow:
'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,
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
Upon which both families vow to abandon their hatred. Shakespeare's work is replete with keen and resonant observations of human nature, in addition to the amazing beauty of it's language, both of which has kept it alive for centuries. We pay a dear price for narcissistic road rage, for greed. It's the enemy of old that, in the end, might doom our whole species to perish from the Earth.
One encounters frequent references to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" but mostly in reference to the beauty and painful irony of their love affair. But that story is part of a larger one which Shakespeare introduces as:
"Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
In the play, it happens (though too often doesn't) that the loss of two beloved children breaks the narcissistic madness that left a long wake of sorrow:
'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,
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
Upon which both families vow to abandon their hatred. Shakespeare's work is replete with keen and resonant observations of human nature, in addition to the amazing beauty of it's language, both of which has kept it alive for centuries. We pay a dear price for narcissistic road rage, for greed. It's the enemy of old that, in the end, might doom our whole species to perish from the Earth.