civil blood makes civil hands unclean
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- "Civil blood makes civil hands unclean" -Prologue, Chorus
- "Civil"
- Word class/ Methods
- Adjective
- Repetetion
- Connations
- Refers to the fact the that brawl between the Montagues and Capulets is effecting the whole town.
- The repetition shows that there is a double meaning
- Foreshadows the fight that happens in act 1, scene 1
- Meanings
- relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns
- courteous and polite
- Word class/ Methods
- "Unclean"
- Word class/ methods
- Adjective
- Meaning
- Dirty
- Morally wrong
- Connations
- Shows that all the fighting is wrong morally because it is making civils hands dirty with other civilians blood
- Context
- The streets in this era were unclean and covered in blood and other rubbish, so all the deaths were normal in this time period.
- Word class/ methods
- "Civil"
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