Most people would tell you that the play, Romeo
and Juliet, is a tragic love story and I would agree. It is also a microcosm
of hatred and the violent result of teaching hatred. We are given no reason for the
feud. Do any of the people involved in this feud know the reason? All of Verona is
affected one way or another by the insanity of the
feud.
Several years ago in Jerusalem there was production
of Romeo and Juliet. The Montagues were played by Palestinians and
the Capulets by Israelis. What better way to demonstrate the results of groups of
people fighting and killing each for reasons of religion or nationality or any number of
things we as human beings find to fight about.
For both of
these young people, their world is so intolerable that they commit suicide to escape the
hatred and violence.
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