He acts on his deep sorrow over the loss instead of trying to imagine how to live his life after the tragedy. At the time, a young man who is worrying about marriage—and at the age when marriage would be in the offing given his class—would be early to mid 20s.
Legally, girls in Elizabethan England could marry as young as 12 with parental consent. Their youthfulness may explain some of their hasty decision-making.
Friar John replies that he was unable to deliver the letter because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreak of plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset, realizing that if Romeo does not know about Juliet's false death, there will be no one to retrieve her from the tomb when she awakes.
Regis Ambacher Pundit. What does Romeo say that reminds the audience that Juliet is still alive? Abdesalam Poladura Pundit. How does Romeo and Juliet end? When he arrives at her tomb she appears lifeless, and in his grief he kills himself by drinking poison.
Moments later Juliet wakes, and, finding Romeo dead, she plunges his sword into her breast. Huguette Zeh Teacher. WHO tries to get Juliet to leave the Capulet tomb?
Hiroshi Ricis Teacher. How is the theme of love presented in Romeo and Juliet? Love is naturally the play's dominant and most important theme.
The play focuses on romantic love , specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet.
In Romeo and Juliet , love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Taufik Ferwagner Teacher. When was Romeo and Juliet written? Sancha Martis Teacher. Who married Romeo and Juliet? Friar Laurence. Anthea Tegelaers Reviewer. What causes the sword fight between Mercutio and Tybalt? Tybalt commands Romeo to draw his sword.
It prompts him to visit Juliet and later poison himself. What does Friar John tell Friar Laurence? He did not send the letter to Romeo telling him the plan. After hearing this news from Friar John, what does Friar Laurence intend to do?
Send another letter, and go back to Juliet. What are those two reasons? Just then, Friar Lawrence enters the churchyard. He encounters Balthasar, who tells him that Romeo is in the tomb. Balthasar says that he fell asleep and dreamed that Romeo fought with and killed someone.
As the friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes. Juliet asks the friar where her husband is. Hearing a noise that he believes is the coming of the watch, the friar quickly replies that both Romeo and Paris are dead, and that she must leave with him. Juliet refuses to leave, and the friar, fearful that the watch is imminent, exits without her. Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises from the empty vial that he has drunk poison. Hoping she might die by the same poison, Juliet kisses his lips, but to no avail.
The watchmen discover bloodstains near the tomb; they hold Balthasar and Friar Lawrence, who they discovered loitering nearby. The Prince and the Capulets enter. Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are discovered in the tomb.
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.
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