Comparing Act 5 Of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Have thee realized that if thee just have had done a different action in your life, it would have been totally different? In Act 4, of Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the ending of the story would’ve been different if just the mere truth was told. There would’ve been a lot of differentiations in the ending if just Romeo & Juliet would’ve told that they were officially married by Friar Lawrence. “ Or tell me to climb down into a freshly dug grave...But I will do them without fear...in order to be a pure wife to my sweet love. “ (Act 4, Scene 1, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare, 215). This shows how clueless is Juliet, and how the wise Friar is not seen anymore as a wise man, because Juliet was giving different hard situations in which she

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