Prompt B
In the play, besides the love story of Romeo and Juliet, the feud between the family of Monatague and Capulet is actually the main problem of Shakespeare's play. In this act, the Prince, Friar Lawrence, both families, and several other people discovered that Count Paris, Romeo and Juliet are freshly dead in the tomb. As they start to suspect and investigate what caused this horrible event, Friar Lawrence confessed. With this shocking news, the Capulets and Montagues finally agreed to end their feud. This kind of problem reminds of this television series where there are two families where they both dislike each other so much. This is basically depends on the rich and poor. Both sides have children of their own, which starts to effect them. As the children grew, including the rage between the families, the kids starts to fall in love with each other. They would start to go out secretly and as this conflict rises, someone at the end ends up getting hurt and/or killed.
Prompt C
Romeo- Why didn't you let Count Paris kill you if you are just going to kill yourself?
Apothecary- Why do you have to give Romeo poison just like that?
Capulet- Do you learn your lesson with your issue?
Prince- Do you think that the conflict of the Montagues and Capulet is settled now?
Friar Lawrence- Will you ever forgive yourself?
The television series that you described is really similar to the story of Romeo and Juliet. Your connection made it clear that the death of Romeo and Juliet was all because of the feud between the two families.
ReplyDeleteFor your final question, the one to Friar Lawrence, I think the Friar will forgive himself if he has any guilt. Still, he did not seem to think he was responsible. He may have said he has some guilt, but I doubt he realizes how much damage he did since he said nothing about regretting leaving Juliet, quite possibly his worse action.
ReplyDeleteYou asked Romeo why he didn't let Paris kill him when he was going to kill himself anyway. I think the reason is that he wanted to spend a few final moments with Juliet, and Paris killing him would have cut that short. Also, I think he wanted to die with dignity and pride, and dying at the hands of Paris would have ruined that.
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