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 damned guilty deeds to sinners’ minds:
Tybalt is dead, and Romeo – banished;
That "banished," that one word "banished,"
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 2. Juliet believes that the banishment of her husband Romeo is worse than death. Torn between family and Romeo, she concludes that Romeo’s exile is worst than the death of ten thousand Tybalts, her cousin killed by Romeo. In a simile she describes how his banishment pushes its way into her memory like sins in a guilty mind. The personification of "banished" highlights her devastation at her separation from Romeo.