Question

In the article "Why Do We Hate?" some believe that hate is a result of ignorance or a lack of education. Is the feud between the Montagues and Capulets based on ignorance? Use evidence from your reading of Romeo and Juliet this far to support your claim. Use proper spelling and punctuation in your four to six sentence response.

Answer 1

Yes, because the Montague-Capulet feud had most likely been going on for several generations, as Shakespeare alludes to by not telling us what the feud was over. If the reader is right to assume this, then even Romeo and Juliet's parents may not know what the feud was over and could have been blindly following their parents. This, by definitions is ignorance-" lack of knowledge, learning, information." If this is so, the entire feud would be pointless, because the Montagues and Capulets would have nothing to be feuding about.