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This line from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" refers to an old conflict leading to new outbreaks of violence or rebellious behavior. It suggests that a long-standing feud between two parties has sparked fresh hostility or disagreement.

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In the prologue what is meant by ancient grudge break to new mutiny?

The two households will continue to feud.


What is the meant by ancient grudge break to new mutiny?

The two households will continue to feud.


In the prologue which line tells how the family feud comes to an end?

The line that tells how the family feud comes to an end in the prologue of the story is: "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny." This line implies that the old grudge between the Capulets and Montagues escalates into new fights and disturbances.


What does mutiny mean in the 3rd line in the prologue of Romeo and Juliet?

"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny". The Prince has passed laws to keep the peace, but because of their feud, the Montagues and Capulets keep on breaking those laws and breaking that peace. Mutiny is disobeying your superiors; the Prince is their superior and has commanded them not to fight, but they disobey him and start fighting again (it is "new mutiny", a new outbreak of violence).


What does ancient grudge break to new mutiny mean in romeo and Juliet?

The two households will continue to feud.


What does From ancient grudge break to new munity?

An ancient grudge is something that someone has been angry about for a long time, and new mutiny would be an active rebellion against whatever it is that this person was angry about. Anger leads eventually to action.


What does from ancient grudge break to new munity mean?

An ancient grudge is something that someone has been angry about for a long time, and new mutiny would be an active rebellion against whatever it is that this person was angry about. Anger leads eventually to action.


What does grudge mean in the 3rd line in the prologue in Romeo and Juliet?

The line "from ancient grudge break to new mutiny" means that new violence had broken out over an old quarrel. The word "grudge" means the same as it does today, something that you hold against someone. You might nowadays say, "don't bear a grudge because I beat you in the beauty contest." The grudge in this case is an ancient one, meaning that it happened a long time ago. Maybe Romeo's great-great-great grandfather stole the girlfriend of Juliet's great-great-great-grandfather. It was something like that.


What are the meanings of the quotes in romeo and juilet?

Do you mean "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."? The key to the sentence is "Two households . . . from ancient grudge break to new mutiny." The two households are two families who have an "ancient grudge". Ancient means old, right? So they break out in a new "mutiny"--a new breach of the peace. The rest is all trimming. We learn that the two families are "alike in dignity"--they have the same social status. They are in Verona, which is where "we lay our scene", or where the scene is set. The mutiny is making hands dirty with blood, and there is a play on the word civil, which means both "of the city" and "polite".


Where were Romeo and Juliet living?

Try reading the first sentence of the first act!: Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. For goodness sake! It's a great story, Try reading it! -firstmate-


How many times does a iamb repeat in a single prologue?

It all depends on the length of the prologue and the regularity of the metre. The prologue to Romeo and Juliet is fourteen lines long, and each line contains approximately five iambs, making a total of seventy in the whole prologue. That's more or less, since lines like "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny", it can be argued, contain only four iambs and one trochee. Romeo and Juliet is not the only one of Shakespeare's plays which has a prologue, however. Henry V has a particularly famous one which is 34 lines long, which would contain one hundred and seventy iambs if it were regular. (It isn't though. The first line "O for a muse of fire that would ascend" contains only 4 iambs and starts with a trochee) The Prologue to Henry IV Part II has 40 lines (200 iambs more or less) and the Prologue to Pericles has 42 lines of iambic tetrameter with 4 iambs to the regular line, a total of 168, more or less.


In Romeo and Juliet who recites the Prologue?

The Chorus is the one speaking in the Prologue; this is what they say:PROLOGUE"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,And the continuance of their parents' rage,Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;The which if you with patient ears attend,What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."