Examples Of Who Should Be Pardoned In Romeo And Juliet

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Who should be punished or who should be pardoned and why???

During Shakespeare’s time theater’s were a big infancy. The first theatre was called The Theatre. It was built in 1576. Two more theatre’s followed as the taste for theatre’s grew. The Curtain n 1557 and The Rose in 1587. I love the movie of Romeo and Juliet. I watched the Disney version about where Juliet and Romeo are gnomes its set as the same but it’s a little different but is also a really good movie.

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the Nurse and the Friar Lawrence should be pardoned and Old Capulet should be punished for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

The Nurse should be pardoned because she wants Juliet to be happy and get married. The Nurses goes on and on about how she wishes to see Juliet married and when she does it will grant one of the …show more content…

“O, she knew well Thy love did read by rote that could not spell. But come, young waverer, come go with me, In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (Shakespeare Act II Scene iii 90-94). This example proves that Friar Lawrence should be pardoned because he thinks the marriage between Romeo and Juliet will turn the two families hate to love but he thinks the sudden marriage between Romeo and Juliet will end up in a violent and tragic end. In a way he was right. In Act II Scene vi Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that their marriage proposal was way too sudden and that it will end violently. “These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss consume” (Shakespeare Act II Scene vi 10-11). This example proves that he should be pardoned because he is one of the people who wants the two families to stop fighting besides the