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:

Answer 1

The lines that best reflect that idea are:

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

Here "winking" means turning a blind eye to the feud; the Prince admits that his failure to act contributed to the tragic deaths.