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Should Romeo And Juliet Have Done Instead Of What They Actually Did?
What I believe Romeo and Juliet should have done instead of what they actually did. In the one scene on page 766, Romeo had visited Juliet in the orchard. Someone could have seen him there and he could have been killed. In scene four, the nurse had visited Romeo, he told her “Bid her devise. Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; and there she shall at Friar Laurence's’ cell. Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.” The nurse had agreed to them getting married, but instead she shouldn’t have agreed because then they wouldn’t have to marry in secret. When Romeo got banished, Juliet was upset and couldn’t deal with him being gone and her father pressuring her. So, what she did was, went to Friar Laurence and asked for a poison. What

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