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Which excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet best reflects the idea that when a person overlooks what he or she knows is wrong, it can result in a catastrophe?

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A.) This letter doth make good the friar’s words,

Their course of love, the tidings of her death:

B.) And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish’d.

C.) Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things:

Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished:

D.) Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,

Till we can clear these ambiguities,

Answer:

B.) And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish’d.

Explanation:

The lines selected above, were said by the Prince of Verona when he realizes that as a monarch he should have ended the fight between the families of Romeo and Juliet, because although he knew that the fight between these families was a wrong and unacceptable thing, he and the families allowed this enmity to last long enough to create tragedies like the death of young people.

Answer:

The answer is B.  

And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish’d.

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