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Question 8 • English I

Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : If they do see thee, they will murder thee. Romeo : Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity. Juliet : I would not for the world they saw thee here. Romeo : I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love How are the themes of Romeo and Juliet and Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" similar?

Answer
A
Both discuss life after death.
B
Both show sibling rivalries.
C
Both present forbidden love.
D
Both address the cruelty of war.
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