Which excerpt from act v, scene iii of romeo and juliet best reflects the play’s overall theme?

lady capulet: o me! this sight of death is as a bell,
that warns my old age to a sepulchre.
prince: see what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love;
romeo: hold, take this letter; early in the morning
see thou deliver it to my lord and father.
montague: o thou untaught! what manners is in this,
to press before thy father to a grave?

Prince: See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, /That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love;

This line best shows the play's overall theme. It shows how the hate between the two families drove their children to commit suicide. The Prince is scolding the parents for their behavior and effectively summing up Shakespeare's message.

The right answer is Prince: See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love;

Explanation: scourge means affliction or predicament and the lovers's affliction is that they love each other but their families hate each other, though.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.