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Romeo And Juliet Act 3 Scene 5 Essay

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In Act 3, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet’s love for Romeo blinds her love for her family when she talks about him killing Tybalt. Although she’s angry at first with Romeo, she switches her emotions and states, “And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my/husband, /all of this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then?” (3.2.116-118). She believes the killing of Tybalt is good, since she knows Romeo is still alive. In this sense, she ignores what happened to her cousin and focuses on the marriage, calling Romeo her husband. In the middle of her speech, she says, “That ‘banished.’ That one word, ‘banished’/has slain ten thousand Tybalts…” (3.2.124-125). Juliet believes Romeo is more important since she phrases death as worse

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