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Throughout Act III we see a lot of recurring inconsistencies between order and disorder. And in Act III:iii, We see character development when Romeo is expressing his feelings about how because of his banishment, he will not be able to see, hear nor touch his “heaven” or Juliet but animals will be able to look upon her and flies will be able to touch her. This shows how young Romeo really is and shows how different (soft) he has become since meeting Juliet, before he probably would have been grateful that he wasn’t set to death and instead banished but now he wishes he were dead instead. Furthermore some foreshadowing comes into play when Romeo asks Friar if he has anything like a knife, poison or weapon he can use to kill himself because he

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