Character Comparison And Contrast Between William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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FRIAR
Romeo, come here, you terrified man.
It seems that you are married to disaster and pain. These things seem to love you.

ROMEO
Father, what’s been decided? What is Prince Escalus’ final sentence? What misery am I going to be informed about right now?

FRIAR
You are too familiar with hearing bad news.
I am here to tell you some good news that has to do with the Prince's doom.

ROMEO
What is the Prince's doom, is it of a lesser doom than the end of the world?

FRIAR
The prince is taking back his word of killing any one who starts a fight and has decided to banish you instead.

ROMEO
Oh myyyyy, I’m banished? Please, just tell me it’s “death” in a nicer manner, because being exiled is much worse than being killed. Don’t tell me I’m “banished”.
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Banish! O, Father! Only the dead spirit will pronounce this word with melancholy cries. How do you have the heart, being a churchman, a ghostly confessor, a sin absolver, and my self-proclaimed friend, wreck me with that word “banished”?

FRIAR
You foolish man, please just listen to what I say.

Romeo
You are going to talk about banishment again.

FRIAR
I’ll give you help to deal with the banishment. Philosophy will comfort you, even though you have been banished.

Romeo
And still “banished”? Philosophy is useless! Unless it can bring Juliet to me, remove a town from its original position, or take back the prince’s punishment, It is helpless, and pointless. Stop I don’t want to hear anymore about philosophy.

FRIAR
I see that you have no ears when you are crazy and won’t listen to a word I say.

Romeo
If one as wise as you are, is blind, how can you expect that someone crazy can hear?

FRIAR
Please, let me talk to you about this.

ROMEO
You can not speaking like is since you’ve never fallen in love. If you were in my shoes, a young man deeply in love with Juliet, newlywed, and just a mere hour later, you’ve kill her cousin, becoming banished from your love, you might act just like me: tearing your hair from your head, falling down to the
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Ah! Tell me, Friar, tell me, in what terrible part of me does my sin lie? Tell me, so I can destroy it.
*about to stab himself*

FRIAR
Stop, don’t do this out of desperation.
Are you a man? You look like one, but sure aren’t acting like one. Your tears make you look like a woman. Your crazy choices make you seem like a beast, that is angry for no reason.
You are like a animal that looks like a man, but acts improper like a woman.
You amaze me, by how stupid you can be. I thought you were better than this.
You have killed Tybalt. And now you want to kill yourself too? By doing this you will kill Juliet too, as she lives for your love.
Why do you sneer at your birth, heaven and the Earth, when your life is what gave you all these things. Are you willing to end your life and lose all of these things? You are not honouring yourself, your love or your knowledge, which makes you a hoarder who is wealthy in all ways and yet never is using their full potential. You are so gifted, but never use any of these talents for the right reason. If you used these things, you would be able to become even better at

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