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Examples Of Crime And Punishment In The 1300s

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Crime and Punishment in Romeo and Juliet This paper will examine Crime and Punishment in the 1300s-1500s compared to today. It will bring up three different types of punishment murder, fighting, and suicide. Crime and Punishment is different today from Crime and Punishment in the 1300s-1500s, but The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare still shows us that Crime and Punishment is the same in both time period in the fact that when people commit a crime and get caught there is some kind of punishment. Crime and Punishment in the 1300s-1500s was harsher than it is today. Punishment in the 1300s-1500s was very harsh. “Sometimes if the trespass be not the more heinous, they are suffered to hang till they are quite dead.” For instance if you walked on someone's lawn you could be hanged. Punishment in the 1300s-1500s for small crimes is way harsher than today. There was a lot of segregation in the elizabethan time period. “There was two classes in the elizabethan …show more content…

People in Romeo and Juliet would be really quick to pull out their sword and fight. “What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!” If people pulled out swords in the middle of the street today they would be punished. There was not as much regulation back then as there is today. At one point in the story Romeo murders Juliet's cousin tybalt. “Romeo slew him; he slew Mercutio. Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe.” Since Romeo killed him, he got banished from mantua. If someone committed murder today, they would have a life sentence in prison. It was illegal to give people poison in Romeo and Juliet. “Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law I death to any he that utters them.” If the Apothecary got caught selling poison he would be beheaded. If people wanted to commit suicide today they would just shoot themselves. People go about crime and punishment totally different today than they did back

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