The answer is irony because of the fact that the main character is the prospect for the hunt.
<span>the quote "the unexamined life is not worth living" was published in Plato's "apology " and this quote refers to a life lived by rote under the rules of others without ever examining or not he truly wants to live with those routines or rules.
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The family feud between their two families separates them apart. As the prologue/beginning states, they were "star-crossed" lovers, kept apart by the hatred between their families, the Montagues and Capulets