What does this excerpt from act 1 of Romeo and Juliet reveal about the Montague-Capulet feud? ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON: I do bite my thumb, sir. ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON: (aside to GREGORY) Is the law of our side, if I say ay? GREGORY: No. SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir. GREGORY: Do you quarrel, sir? ABRAHAM: Quarrel sir! no, sir. SAMPSON: If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you. ABRAHAM: No better. SAMPSON: Well, sir. GREGORY: Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen. SAMPSON: Yes, better, sir. ABRAHAM: You lie. SAMPSON: Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. The servants are more serious about the feud than their masters. The servants of both households use the feud as an excuse to pick fights with each other. The Capulet-Montague feud is petty, foolish, and easily blown out of proportion. The servants don’t take the feud seriously and are disinterested in its outcome. The young noblemen of both houses use the feud as an excuse to pick fights.
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What did Balthazar and Abram do during the fight in Act 1, Scene 1?
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Abraham and Balthasar start a fight with Sampson and Gregory as part of the Montague-Capulet Feud.
Sampson and Gregory represent the House of Capulet, and Abraham and Balthasar represent the House of Montague. The two families are in a feud that affects everyone even remotely related to them. For this reason, apparently you can’t even walk on the street in Verona without a brawl starting.
Abraham and Balthasar’s brawl starts pretty innocently. They are walking along in the street (with swords, of course), when Sampson insults them. He does so slyly and silently, with what would be the equivalent of the modern middle finger. Abraham calls him out on it.
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