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Read the following selection from Act III of Romeo and Juliet. What conflict does the line in caps most closely represent?

JULIET
Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Ty dead, that would have slain my husband:
ALL THIS IS COMFORT; WHEREFORE WEEP I THEN?
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,
That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;
But, O, it presses to my memory,
Like guilty deeds to sinners' minds:
'Tybalt is d3ad, and Romeo—banished;'
That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's d3ath
Was woe enough, if it had ended there:
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,
Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'
Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
Which modern lamentations might have moved?
But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's d3ath,
'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,
Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
All slain, all dea'Romeo is banished!'
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word's d3ath; no words can that woe sound.
Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?

Man vs. Man
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Self

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Answer:

Man vs. Self

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an inner conflict that Juliet is having with herself. The line in caps illustrate that she's struggling with herself, especially with her emotional state.

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