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It is the third time these families have caused a riot in the streets of Verona, and even still the Prince is not doing anything to check it other than making threats. Why he has allowed the fighting to go on so long or even to reach this extent. The expression goes: three strikes and you’re out. Yet here the Prince is giving the families one more and demonstrating his own laxity when it comes to governance and instilling the rule of law. Instead of standing up to the families, he lets them off with a warning. Yet by going easy on them all this time, he is showing a dangerous passive-aggressive streak, so that when death does occur (Mercutio killed by Tybalt and then Tybalt killed by Romeo), the Prince refuses to hear any talk of peace or mercy. He goes from being soft, soft, soft to being hard and cruel—which only further exacerbates the problems and the tension.
Of course, the fathers of the two families are equally to blame as well. Montague calls for his sword in the first scene instead of calling for peace, and Capulet pushes his daughter into a hasty marriage that she does not…
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