Jealousy In Romeo And Juliet

In Romeo and Juliet, two families are in a quarrel. The Montagues and Capulets. These two families are not the only families in a feud, some more families that are in a feud are the Pazzi and Medici, the Hatfields and McCoys, the Campbells and MacDonalds, and the Taira and Minamoto. The type of people and situations that cause a family feud is jealousy, self-assurance, theft and higher power. To begin with, jealousy is one of the main reasons why family feuds initiate. For instance, the Pazzi and Medici. The Pazzi family was jealous of the amount of power the Medici clan had, so the Pazzi wanted to eliminate the Medici clan. The Pazzi eliminated them by assassination. In addition, self-assurance caused family feuds, such as the Hatfields and

McCoys. It first started when Randolph McCoy claimed that a Hatfield stole one of his bogs. The trail did not go in McCoy’s favour which led to murder. The government got involved and it was ended by prison and execution. Then, theft is another cause why family feuds start. To illustrate, the Campbells and MacDonalds got into a feud because they first rivalled from one of the MacDonalds stealing cattle from the Campbells, which led the Campbells to slaughter some members of the MacDonald family in their sleep while some members got away. Lastly, higher power causes family feuds. Such as the Taira and Minamoto, they were the two highest families in power in the 12th century. The Taira ran the imperial government giving them more power. Eventually, the Minamoto raised against the Taira but it did not end well. 20 years later, the two families gathered their forces and war broke out the two families. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives and it ended by the Minamoto being in charge. All in all, the family feuds that were covered were initiated by jealousy, self-assurance, theft and high power.