Guilt In Romeo And Juliet

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Nightmares are made from the mental withdrawals from guilt. Guilt can be prevented when the guilt is self-instigated, according to choices made, but when the conscience is there all through the process forecasting the fate and destruction, and nothing is done to counteract the fall, there's nobody to blame but whoever was entitled to take a stand. This causes guilt, content, and crushes ego and reputation. Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespeare, is a tragedy that revolves around the journey to find true love. Romeo Montague has a mindset shift when he realizes that his obsession over a fantasy, Rosaline, is unrealistic and a pursuit to fulfill the obsession just to be in love. Romeo’s cousin wavers his fixed pursuit by encouraging him to …show more content…

This man tests his integrity when he attempt to marry this couple in secret; he doubted his own decision, but the decision was final, so he let it fly. Friar “prayed” and hoped for luck: “‘So smile the heavens upon this holy act\ that after hours with sorrow will chide us not’” (2.vi.1-2). Friar knows Romeo is too young to understand true love, and what he doesn't realize are the ramifications of vowing Romeo with Juliet. The long term affects that this marriage has, suicide, outweighs the present satisfaction; unity of two lovers. Friar is also the one to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play because of his public admittance to his prediction early on. He foreshadows, that these “violent” pleasures in this love have “violent” ends, referring to the relational or physically deaths due to a quick and hasty decision. Friars wrong move to forbade the effects of his mistake get him busted, and quoted in the reflection on the cause of Romeo and juliet's deaths. To make Friars indiscretion worse, only he, as far as we know, knows that he also aided, and came up with the idea of faking Juliet's

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