Pupils have to perform a piece and offer their opinions at the inquest in Verona regarding who is to blame for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers.
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Ladies and Gentlemen
I am here today, at the inquest into the Deaths of Romeo and Juliet, to offer my highly regarded team of lawyers’ opinions as to the reasons for the deaths of these star crossed lovers. It is obvious that there are several parties who can be seen to have contributed towards their tragic situation but we firmly believe that the most guilty party in the state of affairs was no other than the nurse.
Today, you must find the nurse to be more guilty than any other party because she had the ability to control the sequence of events and prevent anything that happened from taking place.
How on earth can you believe any other character is guiltier than this sole, culpable party?
The nurse behaved in a deplorable, despicable and dangerous manner in trying to arrange the marriage by visiting Romeo, a Montague, and arranging the marriage by visiting the Friar at his cell. As a result, she clearly acted against the wishes of her family and such behaviour can only be described as a mischievous female who held no care for the child in her care.
Chris Linsdell, a local cart thief who regularly makes up songs to entertain other mad people, is her husband and firmly believes that she is guilty too. In a statement to
In Verona, it was evident that 76 people died in the town square only days before their untimely deaths and it was foolish, thoughtless and insensitive to try to arrange such a relationship at the present time.
In another court case in 1657, a nurse of another wealthy daughter was beheaded for merely giving her a Ribena instead of a Vimto as this was regarded as being ‘a rude breach of their parents’ confidence’, according to Judge Bileast Doolan of Mantua and as a result deserved nothing more than a painful death.
85% of servants who come before a court in cases like this are found to be guilty and I believe, the local community believes, the judge will be believe and hopefully, you the jury will believe that there is no other punishment which can be given to her.
How can we adopt new principles which go against what courts normally find for such cases as this?
Once again, I implore that you find the nurse to be found guilty and be tried individually for the situation that we find ourselves in. She was in a position of responsibility to guide Juliet and help her parents bring her up. She, and only she, went against the wishes of the person who supplied her wages and made decisions which expressly went against their wishes.
This world will be better off if she is found dangling like an apple from a tree in the morning as she had no respect for her employees and deserves everything that she gets. Of course other people will offer thoughts as to other people’s accountability for these two unfortunate deaths but nothing compares to this cruel, nasty and selfish woman’s desire to have a little more gossip to treasure for herself.
You cannot see any other decision. Can you?
