Romeo And Juliet Gang Affiliation Essay

The play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare is full of gang affiliation, representation, violence, and feuding. The whole play is based on two families, the Montagues and Capulets, the feuding sides are far too much alike to some real feuding gangs and feuding families. First, gang affiliation, everyone is on a side in this play, for example, the character Mercutio is not blood related to either family, but he is considered a Montague because he has sided with them, and has made it clear that he is against the Capulets.
Same with the nurse, she is not blood related to the Capulets, but she serves them and tends to them when they are in need. Then when Romeo and Juliet get together, she helps them out with their issues on getting together and seeing each other. Friar Lawrence on the other hand is completely neutral, he helps them both and he is not affiliated with the Montagues or the Capulets. However, if someone were in either family, they would automatically be on that families side. For example, Benvolio is a Montague and he will stay a Montague. Tybalt is a Capulet, even in death he will stay a Capulate. The when they are apart of that family, they have to represent it, by wearing colors, Montagues were
An example of the one hundred years ago one, is the story of Hatfields and McCoys. Their feud was during the 1800s, over the killing of a pig, now now one knows why the montagues and Capulets are fighting, that was never mentioned in the play. Maybe it was as stupid as the killing of a pig, or the picking of a fruit off a tree that they did not own. Between the two families, there were murders kidnappings and brutal beatings amongst each other. The war between them came to a head when one night, some Hatfields entered a McCoy's cabin and shot the two children, beat the mother until she was barely alive, and burning the house