The two households will continue to feud.
"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).
The two households will continue to feud.
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.
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".
A prologue is an introduction to a play which tells the listener/viewer what the play is about, here is the prologue for Romeo and Juliet, it is an iambic pentameter (14 lines of 10 syllables each in an ABAB pattern until the last 2 lines which are a rhyming couplet). Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, And civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take there life; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parent's 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.
The two households will continue to feud.
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.
"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).
The two households will continue to feud.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet From the Prologue (spoken by Chorus) Two houses, 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 foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...
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-
An iamb is a metrical pattern in poetry that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (da-DUM). In a single prologue, the repetition of iambs will depend on the length and structure of the prologue itself. There is no fixed number of times an iamb must repeat in a prologue.