Deaths In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Deaths in Romeo and Juliet
“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die” (Shakespeare). In the play Romeo and Juliet ,by Shakespeare, a pair of star-crossed lovers lead their feuding families to a tornado of actions. Romeo and Juliet's love tries to hide itself but leads to a lot of deaths. Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet there is a lot of deaths they will be explained in legal, moral, and familial terms.
The first side of death to be analyzed is legal. Legally anyone in Verona who kills another is given the death penalty. Romeo on the other hand was banished because the prince thought about how killing Tybalt was what the law would do anyways. So then the prince was lax and did

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