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Tombs and Wombs
Read the NoteFriar Lawrence’s rumination on soil as both a tomb and a womb works as a metaphor of one of the play’s central themes. The “misadventure’d piteous overthrows” of Romeo and Juliet in the Capulet tomb at the end of the play gave birth to a growth of amity between their two families.
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