Balthasar gives the Prince the letter Romeo had previously written to his father. He scolds the Capulets and Montagues, calling the tragedy a consequence of their feud and reminding them that he himself has lost two close kinsmen: Mercutio and Paris.
Capulet and Montague clasp hands and agree to put their vendetta behind them. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet occur in a sequence of compounding stages: first, Juliet drinks a potion that makes her appear dead. Thinking her dead, Romeo then drinks a poison that actually kills him. Seeing him dead, Juliet stabs herself through the heart with a dagger.
Social and private forces converge in the suicides of Romeo and Juliet. Through the arrival of the Prince, the law imposes itself, seeking to restore the peace in the name of social order and government. Montague and Capulet arrive, rehashing family tensions. None of these forces are able to exert any influence on the young lovers.
We have seen Romeo and Juliet time and again attempt to reconfigure the world through language so that their love might have a place to exist peacefully. That language, though powerful in the moment, could never counter the vast forces of the social world.
Through suicide, the lovers believe they can escape the world that oppresses them. Further, in the final brutality of their deaths, they transfigure that world. The feud between their families ends.
Prince Escalus—the law—recognizes the honor and value due to the lovers. A crowbar What frightening realization does Friar Laurence come to? Lady Montague Who does Romeo kill at the tomb? Paris What reasons does Romeo give Balthasar for going into the Capulet monument? When she sees the poison, she realizes what has happened. Friar Lawrence, dagger Soon thereafter, Prince Escalus arrives, accompanied by the City Watchmen and the patriarchs of the feuding families.
To pay his respects to Juliet What instructions does Paris give to his servant? Burn the torch out, go hide in the tree and alert me if anyone comes by Why has Romeo come to the tomb? To kill himself and be with Juliet What instructions does he give to Balthasar? Hides nearby to observe the scene When Romeo opens the tomb, to what does he compare it? A monster Why does Paris feel that he should fight Romeo? Murdered Tybalt How does Romeo try to persuade Paris to leave the tomb? Paris dies.
When Romeo addresses the dead Tybalt, what does he tell him? Begs him to forgive him What suggestion does Friar Lawrence make to Juliet in order to get her to leave the tomb? With instruments upon them fit to open. These dead men's tombs. O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This dagger hath mista'en — for lo, his house. Is empty on the back of Montague, —. And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom. O me, this sight of death is as a bell. That warns my old age to a sepulchre. Come, Montague, for thou art early up. To see thy son and heir now early down. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath. What further woe conspires against mine age? Look, and thou shalt see. O thou untaught!
What manners is in this,. To press before thy father to a grave? Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,. Till we can clear these ambiguities,. And know their spring , their head , their true descent ;.
And then will I be general of your woes,. And lead you even to death. Meantime forbear ,. And let mischance be slave to patience. Bring forth the parties of suspicion. I am the greatest , able to do least ;. Yet most suspected as the time and place. Doth make against me of this direful murder;.
And here I stand both to impeach and purge ,. Myself condemned and myself excused. Then say at once what thou dost know in this. I will be brief, for my short date of breath. Is not so long as is a tedious tale. Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;. And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife. I married them, and their stol'n marriage-day. Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death.
Banished the new-made bridegroom from the city,. For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. You , to remove that siege of grief from her,. Betrothed and would have married her perforce. To County Paris. Then comes she to me,. And with wild looks bid me devise some mean. To rid her from this second marriage,. Or in my cell there would she kill herself. Then gave I her — so tutored by my art —. A sleeping potion, which so took effect. As I intended, for it wrought on her. The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo,.
That he should hither come as this dire night. To help to take her from her borrowed grave,. Being the time the potion's force should cease. But he which bore my letter, Friar John,. Was stayed by accident, and yesternight. Returned my letter back. Then all alone,. At the prefixed hour of her waking,. Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,. Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,.
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo. But when I came, some minute ere the time. Of her awaking, here untimely lay. The noble Paris and true Romeo dead. She wakes, and I entreated her come forth. And bear this work of heaven with patience. But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,.
And she, too desperate , would not go with me,. But, as it seems, did violence on herself. All this I know, and to the marriage. Her nurse is privy. And, if aught in this. Miscarried by my fault, let my old life. Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,. Unto the rigor of severest law. We still have known thee for a holy man. Where's Romeo's man? What can he say to this? I brought my master news of Juliet's death,.
And then in post he came from Mantua. To this same place, to this same monument. This letter he early bid me give his father,. And threatened me with death, going in the vault,. If I departed not and left him there. Give me the letter; I will look on it. Where is the County's page that raised the watch? Sirrah, what made your master in this place? He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave,. And bid me stand aloof, and so I did. Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb,.
And by and by my master drew on him,. And then I ran away to call the watch. This letter doth make good the friar's words —. Lady Montague has died of grief at Romeo's banishment. The Friar faithfully recounts the events of the past week and offers his life in atonement. The Prince acknowledges the Friar's benevolent intent and instead lays the blame for the deaths squarely on Montague and Capulet for their longstanding quarrel. The Prince also blames himself for his leniency and fines Montague and Capulet severely.
The final scene of the play brings both the transcendent reunion of Romeo and Juliet and the reconciliation of the feuding families.
The family tomb becomes a symbol of both birth and death. It is, on the one hand, the womb from which Juliet should emerge alive — and hope be born anew. However, the tomb is also a dark and fateful vortex that consumes life, light, and hope. Romeo pledges in Act V, Scene 1, that he will defy fate and lie with Juliet that night.
In his final act, he falls by her side and lies with her in perpetuity.
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