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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.

Read this excerpt from act I, scene I, of Richard III. What two purposes does this soliloquy serve in the opening scene?

RICHARD III (Duke of Gloucester): Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.

It depicts the motivations and personality of the character.
It introduces and develops the major characters of the play.
It describes a climactic point in the plot of the play.
It creates an atmosphere of hope and happiness.
It gives some background information about the plot.

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What this excerpt from Act I, Scene I, of "Romeo and Juliet", by William Shakespeare, reveals about the Montague-Capulet feud is The servants of both households use the feud as an excuse to pick fights with each other. In this first act the servants from both houses, try to find excuses to fight each other.

The two purposes that this soliloquy from Act I, Scene I, of "Richard III",  serves in the opening scene are, It depicts the motivations and personality of the character and it gives some background information about the plot. Richard describes himself as deformed and ugly and to entertain himself in times of peace he is going to try to take control of the court.

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  • The servants of both households use the feud as an excuse to pick fights with each other.

In this excerpt, we see that the servants of the Montague and the Capulet pick fights with each other. This is a consequence of the feud that exists between the two families. The servants seem to try to find excuses to justify this animosity, showing that the feud affects them as much as the families.

  • It depicts the motivations and personality of the character.
  • It gives some background information about the plot.

In this excerpt, the author depicts the motivations and personality of the character. Richard II describes how his family's problems are over, and how they now enjoy life at court. However, he also complains of his sad life, as he is ugly and deformed, and will never be truly happy because of it. Moreover, we also learn background information about the plot, as the character tells us about his past troubles and the history of his family.

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