ASEBL Journal – Volume 11 Issue 1, January 2015
“For this alliance may so happy prove”
The problem of the blood feud has only two solutions: 1) the annihilation of one side,
as promoted by ancestral Montague and Capulet and as perpetuated by their descendants (namely Tybalt); or 2) peace, be it through a deterrent, as exercised by the Prince,
or through forgiveness, as promoted by Friar Laurence and the Nurse. Although
Christianity has been used to justify antinationalist movements (e.g., Christian anarchism; see Christoyannopoulos, 2010), it has also been