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Punished In Romeo And Juliet

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“Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished;/For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”(V.iii.320-322). Love. Death. They may seem like complete opposites, but what if they were not as far apart as you may think. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, written by the famous play writer William Shakespeare, there are two rival families; the Capulets and the Montagues. This feud gets in the way when Romeo, a Montague, is encouraged to go to the Capulet’s ball by his friends in order to clear his mind over a recent heartbreak and ends up meeting Juliet, a Capulet, and is instantly head over heels with her. That night the two find out they are from opposing sides, but that does not get in the way of their love they feel for each …show more content…

A new day has come and that morning in the streets of Verona, a fight breaks out between Tybalt and Mercutio, turning deadly when Tybalt kills Mercutio, leading to many other bad events. Next thing we know Romeo has killed Tybalt in order to get revenge and for that the Prince banishes Romeo from Verona. This news is upsetting to Juliet, but the Capulets do not know the real reason she is down, so in an effort to make her feel better they order a wedding for her and Paris to be earlier, adding on to the overwhelmed feelings Juliet already has. She then goes to Friar Laurence to ask if there is anything she can do and he will come up with a plan that consists of a potion that will make her appear dead, Friar will send a letter to Romeo telling him the plan, but when it does not get delivered, Romeo goes to the apothecary to buy poison that he will use to kill himself. When Juliet wakes up to this sight she uses Romeo’s dagger to kill herself as well. While several characters share the blame for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers, the guiltiest of all is Friar

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At the start she would talk to the Nurse about Romeo all the time but then the Nurse did not approve of what was going on and she had no one left to turn to but the friar. He worked up a plan that could put both Romeo and Juliet in a life or death situation. The friar’s plan is to have Juliet marry Paris, then the night before the wedding she will consume a drinking potion that will make her appear dead, she will then be taken to the Capulet tomb, and then the friar will send word to Romeo to help him retrieve her when she wakes. The friar tells the Capulet’s that Juliet is dead, “Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion’s cure lives not In these confusions.

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Which drives Romeo to revenge then they both draw out their swords to fight,then Romeo kills him which then the prince finds out. That's when Romeo gets banished,Juliet then later on finds out about his banishment,which then goes and cries about it to Friar Lawrence,which he then makes a potion to her to make it look like she's dead. She uses the potion to get out of her marriage and escape with Romeo. Romeo then hears news about her "death" which he goes back to Verona to see Juliet,where he gets poison and kills himself,then Juliet wakes up to see him there lying dead,where she also kills herself.

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Later, Romeo encounters Tybalt, and Tybalt challenges him to a fight, but he refuses so Mercutio fights Tybalt and dies. Next, Romeo fights Tybalt to avenge Mercutio and kills Tybalt, but the prince arrives and banishes Romeo from the city. Juliet can’t stand to be without Romeo so she talks to Friar Lawrence, and he plots a plan to get them back together. The plan fails, and Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so he goes to her tomb and kills himself. Juliet awakens and decides to kill herself because she doesn’t want to live without Romeo.

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Juliet, who was just pumped for the wedding night, slowly starts to get worried and afraid that something has happened to Romeo. Since the Nurse is too dumb to realize, she led her to believe that Romeo’s dead. The Nurse bring it to her straight told her that it’s Tybalt whose dead killed by Romeo, and who is now exile from Verona. Juliet begins to feel more devastated over Romeo’s banishment than Tybalt’s death. The Nurse tells Juliet that she will find Romeo and tell him to come to her for their wedding night.

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Imagine yourself finding the love of your life and then coming to realize that your only love is your most hated enemy. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fell in love in just the shortest amount of time that they didn’t even know they were enemies, but they do not let the thought of being enemies get in the way of their love. Romeo and Juliet went through misery just to be together in the end which they do end up being together just not in the way they intended it to be. The two of them loved each other so much that they sacrificed their own lives just because the feud would not let them be together. The family’s feud is at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because the name Montague and Capulet would have never mattered, Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo, an intelligent, lovesick boy from the Montague family and his lover Juliet, a young, naive girl from the Capulet family are deeply engrossed with love in each other. During the lover's path, there was so much anger and hatred making it impossible for them to be together and love each other. The hostility is so intense that the thought of seeing each other on the street would anger them. The feud

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Juliet goes to the Friar for help and he tells her to take a poison that lasts 42 hours and she will wake up in the capulets tomb. When she wakes up in the capulet's tomb the Friar and Romeo will be there and she can leave to go to Mantua. But, when she wakes up she only finds the Friar to be there and Romeo to be dead. Juliet grabs the dagger from Romeo’s side and she stabs herself and the Friar leaves because the guards were enroute. When they find out both Romeo and Juliet died together they end both family feuds because six people have died.

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The tragic ending of William Shakespeare's renowned play "Romeo and Juliet" has often been attributed to the long-standing feud between the Capulet and Montague families. This bitter enmity between the two households lays the foundation for the ill-fated love affair and subsequent demise of the young couple. The Capulet and Montague family feud serves as a catalyst for the events leading to Romeo and Juliet's death due to its impact on their relationship, the escalation of violence in Verona, and the inability to find a peaceful resolution. Firstly, the intense animosity between the Capulets and Montagues creates insurmountable barriers to Romeo and Juliet's love.

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At the end of Romeo and Juliet, the Prince declares that "Some shall be pardoned and some punished. " I believe The Capulets are at fault for the outcome of the play. Capulet is Juliet dad, he over powers almost everybody in Verona. Capulet forces Juliet to marry Paris thinking that it would make her happy after the death of Tybalt. Act three scene five says "Hang thee, young baggage!

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The feud of families brought two star-crossed lovers to their grave. That the two families, the Capulet and the Montague, were involved in their love for each other making it hard for them to see each other. In one of the scene, Romeo and Juliet finds out that they are both enemies as he said “Is she a Capulet? O dear account!

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