Violence and Honour
Key scenes
- anything with tybalt
- Capulet party (Act 1 Scene 5)
- Capulet vs Montague [death of Tybalt and Mercutio] (Act 3 Scene 1)
- Prolouge (P)
Quotes
- "Fetch me my rapier, boy." (1,5)
- "Therefore turn and draw." (3,1)
- "civil blood makes civil hands unclean" (P)
- "the mad blood stirring" (3,1)
Context- Men defended there honour throught mediveal and Elizabethean times and there were two types of honour: vertical which could be increased or gained by men and horizontal which was more to do with family status and husbands and fathers
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