g comes and Romeo is off. I asked myself, how would
this change the plot if this scene was taken out? Romeo would have taken off and
banished and Juliet would have still wanted to be with him. Also in this scene, we see lady
Capulet and Capulet expain to Juliet that she is to marry Paris. Instead of fighting with
her parents to marry Paris, why not find Romeo and live in exile with him. She says, "If
all else fail, myself have power to die" (III, V, 244). She is saying she would rather die
than marry Paris, but why does she need to die when she has other options.
All of these reasons made this scene look at first glance ilirrelvant to the rest of the
play. There really isn't anything that changes the play if we were to that this scene out and
that is what gave me this impression.
At first glance this scene seemed unnecessary to the rest of this
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