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Friar Lawrence Should Be Pardoned In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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At the end of Romeo and Juliet, the Prince says “Some shall be pardoned, and some punished”. There are many different ideas of who should be pardoned and who should be punished for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. The Prince should be punished for his role in the deaths, and Friar Lawrence should be pardoned for his role in the deaths. Friar Lawrence should be pardoned for his role in the deaths because he gave Juliet a plan so she wouldn’t have to marry Paris. Proof of this is when the Friar says to Juliet, “Take thou this vial, being then in bed …Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,” This means that, on the night before her wedding, Juliet should

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