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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Week 4
-Week 4

Give a short account of the fight that happened during Act 1, Scene 1.(What happened?)

It started with Sampson and Gregory,the servants of the Capulets. both of them were on town when Abram and Balthasar, the servants of Montagues come. Sampson started off by showing Abram and Balthasar a rude face. However when Abram asked Sampson if he is making a rude face at them, Sampson replied that he is making a rude face but not at them. Then Gregory challenged Abram to a fight but Abram, who was very calm, declined his challenge and refused to fight. When Sampson says that his master is a good man, Abram challenge him and says that Lord Capulet, which is Sampson's master, is not a better man. When Tybalt arrive, Sampson says that Tybalt is a better man but Abram acussed that he was lying. Finally when Sampson runs out of patients, he tells Gregory to take out his sword and they started fighting. Benvolio came to stopped the servants from fighting, but to no avail. Instead, he is being accused by Tybalt. Tybalt thought that Benvolio is in the fight and he attack Banvolio. This leads to the fight between Tybalt and Benvolio. The passing townspeople also interfere and end up fighting with one and other, while the others cheers for their ideal family. Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet arrived. Without knowing that it was Sampson, one of his servant who is at fault, he orders Sampson to take his long sword to him as he saw Lord Montague coming. Lord Montague also command his wife not to stop him. As they were about to start the fight, Prince Escalus came and stopped the fight.

Whose fault was it? Who started the fight ?

"SAMPSON: If i meet any of those Montague dogs today, i'm really to attack them." This shows that it was Sampson, who wants to attract the Montague's family attention. When Abram and Balthasar from the Montague family arrived, Sampson started to provoke them by making a rude face at them. This is a form of disrespectful towards them. Gregory also challenge Abram into a fight but Abram remains very calm and declined his challenge. From this few sentences, we can infer that it was the Capulets who started off everytihng. Not only the servants, Tybalt from the Capulets family, also started a fight with Banvolio when he accuse Benvolio of involving in the fight when Benvolio when Benvolio is there only to stopped the servants form fighting. It was Tybalt who refuse to listen to Benvolio's explaination and attacked him him. So, it was Sampson and Tybalt, both from the Capulets family, were at fault.The both of them are too impulsive and can not afford to be provoked. However, it was Sampson, from the Capulet family started the fight by asking Gregory to take out his sword and start fighting, leading to the cousins, then the townspeople and almost the heads of both familes.

Should there have been any punishment?

Yes, it should have one punishment. Since it was the Capulets' servants who atart the fight, the servants should be punish. But Abram was also at wrong for insulting Lord Capulet that he was not a better man, so Abram should also be punish. Both familes were enemies for years but still, they were staying in the same town. It would serve best if both families were banish to a place far away from Vorona, until both families became friends again, then they were allowed abck to Verona.
Other punishment would be, which ever person from any family starts the fight forst, that person will be sent to death. If not, the person shall be banished from Verona. But it will be better if both families have to move out of Verona when they fight again. I totally agree with Prince Escalus that heads will roll if both families fight again. Heads will roll practically means that they will die they fight again. So, i am very glad that Prince Escalus had set this rules and i am sure not a single one of them will break they rule.

by: Joey
edited and post by: Joey


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