Question

Which excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet best reflects the idea that when a person overlooks what he or she knows is wrong, it can result in a catastrophe?

This letter doth make good the friar’s words,
Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish’d.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things:
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished:
Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
Till we can clear these ambiguities,

Answer 1

The lines that best express that idea are:

"And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."

Explanation: "Winking at" means turning a blind eye or tolerating the feud. The speaker admits that by overlooking what was wrong he shares responsibility for the tragic consequences (the deaths), so his neglect helped produce the catastrophe.