Romeo And Juliet Sin Quotes

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Everything changes when Juliet encounters Romeo at the Capulet ball. Their intense love, at first sight, alters Juliet's actions and loyalty to her peers. When Romeo asks to kiss Juliet she offers other options, but Romeo persuades her to say, “Then have my lips the sin that they took” (1.5.119). Juliet offers her lips to Romeo to kiss him, knowing that it is a sin. God is an integral part of life for people in this time period, and Juliet directly defies him showing her disobedience. Also, Juliet resists her parents after Lord Capulet arranges her marriage with Paris to cheer her up from Tybalt’s death. Juliet is outraged by this and yells at her parents, “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear/ it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate”