Friar laurence: too familiar
is my dear son with such sour company:
i bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
romeo: what less than doomsday is the prince's doom?
friar laurence: a gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,
not body's death, but body's banishment.
—romeo and juliet,
william shakespeare
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what new complication is introduced here?
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Have you ever thought you understood a person based on a story that you have heard about them? have you ever guessed about a person's personal life because of the clothes they wore? or, have you judged a person because of their friends? although classifying people in this way is typically discouraged, authors deliberately use your preconceived ideas to you form an opinion about the character or to at least have a better understanding. can you think of a time that you made a character call about someone based on external aspects? were you correct, or incorrect? has anyone ever made an incorrect assessment of you based on external aspects? write two paragraphs about it in your journal.