The Prologue

Two households, both alike in dignity/(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene)/From
ancient grudge to new mutiny/Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean (1)
In Verona, there are two houses that are equal in wealth in power. These
houses have a long-standing feud, causing bloodshed and many deaths
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives
(1)
The children of these two enemy houses will fall in love and take their
lives
Doth with their death bury their parents strife (1)
The deaths of the two children will end the feuding between their parents
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Act 1
Scene 1

I mean, an we be in choler, well draw (9)

If anyone from the opposing house caused trouble, they are willing to
fight them
Shows how the feud between the houses has extended to the servants and
the citizens of Verona
What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and
thee/Have at thee, coward! (13)
A fight begins between the people of the two houses
If you ever disturb our streets again/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace (13)
The Prince warns that if the fighting between the two houses, each house
will pay for it with their lives
Away from light steals home my heavy son/And private in his chamber pens
himself/Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out/And makes himself an artificial night (19)
Romeo is the son of Montague
At the moment, he is sad, and alone, not wanting to talk
to anyone
Darkness Imagery: He creates an artificial night during the day. He
blocks out light and is associated with the darkness
No one knows the cause of Romeos sadness
O brawling love, O loving hate/O anything of nothing first [create!]... This love feel I,
that feel no love in this (21)
Romeo uses oxymoron, or opposite words, to show his confusion and his
grief about his love (ex. Loving and hate are opposites)
Romeos love is not returned, or unrequited
This is not Romeo. Hes some other where (23)
Romeos lost love has caused him to feel disconnected and lost
Shell not be hit/With Cupids arrow O, she is rich in beauty, only poor/That, when
she dies, with beauty dies her story (23)
Rosaline, the girl that Romeo loves, does not love him back
Romeo is in love with her great beauty

Scene 2
Capulet and Count Paris are together, having a conversation
My child is yet a stranger in the world/She hath not seen the change of fourteen
years/Let two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride (27)
Paris asks Capulet for his daughter Juliets hand in marriage
However, Capulet says that at 14 years old, Juliet is not ready to be
married yet, and that in two years time, she will be.
This night I hold an old accustomed feast/Whereto I have invited many a guest
That night, the Capulets are holding a large party and invited many
people to join them, including Paris
But I am sent to find those persons whose names/are here writ, and can never find what
names the/writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned/In good time!? (29)
The servingman that has the list of party guests cannot read, so he does
not understand any of the names that he has
Romeo and Benvolio, talking about Romeos lovesickness, run into the servingman.
The servingman, not knowing that they are Montagues, asks Romeo to read the names on
the list for the party that night
At this same ancient feast of Capulets/Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves/With
all the admird beauties of Verona/Go thither, and with unattainted eye/Compare her face with
some that I shall show/And I will make thee think thy swan a crow (33)
Rosaline, the girl that Romeo is in love with, is included on the list of
people invited to the party
Benvolio encourages Romeo to go to the Capulets party and compare
Rosalines beauty with that of the other girls attending, so that he may realize that the
other girls are far more beautiful than she is. This would then, hopefully, stop Romeo
from being lovesick and upset.
Romeo agrees to go to the Capulets party, not to look at other women, but to see
Rosaline, the girl he loves

Scene 3

Lady Capulet and the Nurse, Juliets caretaker, go to find Juliet

Juliet is about 14 years old
It is an [honor] that I dream not of (39)
Juliet says that she does not wish to get married
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem/Are made already mothers. By my count/I was your
mother much upon these years/That you are now a maid. Thus, then, in brief:/The valiant Paris
seeks you for his love (39)
During this time period, many girls of Juliets age were getting married
and having children
Juliets mother tells her about Paris marriage proposal
Paris is described as being a perfect suitor for Juliet, and Juliet agrees to look for Paris
that night at the party
Scene 4
Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio enter the Capulets party, with no one knowing that they
are Montagues
They are all wearing masks to the party, so they could go unnoticed

 Although Mercutio tries to get Romeo to dance, Romeo is too upset over Rosaline to
dance at the party
She gallops night by night/Through lovers brains, and then they dream of love
Queen Mab can change/affect peoples dreams and cause them to have
dreams of fantasies
She makes people who are in love dream of love
And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two/And sleeps again. This is that very
Mab/That plats the manes of horses in the night/And bakes the [elflocks] in foul sluttish
hairs/Which once untangled much misfortune bodes (49)
Although she can cause people to have good dreams, Mab can also give
people bad nightmares, causing them to wake up panicking in the middle of the night
True, I talk of dreams/Which are the children of an idle brain/Begot of nothing but vain
fantasy (49)
Mercutio uses Queen Mab to make fun of Romeos lovesick dreams,
which he believes are childish
I fear too early, for my mind misgives/Some consequences yet hanging in the stars/Shall
bitterly begin his fearful fate/With this nights revels (49)
Romeo is afraid that they are entering the party too early and that
something bad is going to happen there

Scene 5

(53)

The serving men are setting up for the party

Capulet starts the party, and everyone begins dancing
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! (53)
Light imagery: While Romeo is related to the dark, he equates Juliet with
the light
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear (53)
Juliet is too beautiful for the earth-- She is too beautiful to die and be
buried
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows (53)
Light imagery (snowy, light)
And, touching hers, make blessd my rude hand (53)
Romeo is unworthy of Juliet because she is so beautiful
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight/For I neer saw true beauty till this night

Romeo had never truly loved anyone before Juliet

He forgets about Rosaline, and instead instantly falls in love with Juliets

beauty
Tybalt recognizes Romeos voice and wants to kill him for entering a Capulet party.
However, Capulet lets Romeo stay because he is a well-governed or well behaved. Tybalt also
agrees to leave Romeo alone as long as he doesnt do anything disrespectful
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this
Religious connection: Romeo compares Juliet to a holy shrine
Romeo and Juliet kiss
O dear account! My life is my foes debt
Romeo finds out that Juliet is Capulets daughter
Juliet also finds out that Romeo is a Montague

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Chorus
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie/And young affection gapes to be his heir./That
fair for which love groaned for and would die (65)
Romeo has forgotten about Rosaline and is now in love with Juliet
Juliet loves him back, which makes this love different from that with
Rosaline
Bewitchd by the charm of looks (65)
In love with her beauty
Being held a foe, he may not have access to breathe such vows as lovers use to swear
(65)
Both Romeo and Juliet come from opposing enemy houses, which makes
it hard for them to see each other and to express their love to one another.
They are destined to meet eventually due to the passion that they share

Scene 1

Can I go forward when my heart is here? (65)

Romeo is drawn and connected to Juliet
Now that his heart is connected to her, he cannot continue on without
Juliet
Romeo jumps over a wall into the Capulets garden to find Juliet
Mercutio and Benvolio look for Romeo, trying to find him
Blind is his love and best befits the dark (69)
Dark Imagery
Romeos love blinds him of the outside world and, thus, belongs in the
darkness
Mercutio and Benvolio, recognizing that Romeo does not want to be found, leave

Scene 2

What light through yonder window breaks?/It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. (69)
Light Imagery
Juliet is bright, like the sun
Contrasts with Romeos darkness
Romeo describes Juliet as being even more beautiful than the moon
Romeo sees Juliet on her balcony, but she doesnt know that he is there
He notices that shes speaking
Tis not to me she speaks./Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,/Having some
business, [do] entreat her eyes/ To twinkle in their spheres till they return. (71)
Romeo describes Juliets eyes as having stars in them
Reference to Juliet being heavenly of having qualities not of this world
Light Imagery, comparing Juliet to the light
Eyes are like the bright, twinkling stars

Bright angel (71)

Also religious connection
Juliet begins speaking out, longing for Romeo
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? (71)
WHY do you have to be Romeo?!? (A Montague)
His name (Montague) is the problem/the reason why
they cant be together
Deny thy father and refuse thy name/Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love/And Ill
no longer be a Capulet (71)
Juliet is willing to give up her status as a Capulet to be with Romeo
Rivalry between the houses doesnt extend to Romeo and Juliet
Their love is more powerful than rivalry
Their names are not important to them so long as they are able to be together
Whats Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot/Nor, nor face (71)
The name is not a physical thing
Whats in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other word would
smell as sweet (71-73)
A name doesnt change who Romeo is or that Juliet is in
love with him
Religious Connections
Ball me but love, and Ill be new baptized (73)
If Juliet says that she is in love with Romeo, he will be
baptized or become a new person (get rid of his name)
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself/Because it is an enemy to
thee (73)
Romeo calls Juliet a saint-- Shes holy, shes pure, etc.
Romeos name is not as important as Juliets love
Romeo makes his presence known, and Romeo and Juliet begin talking together
Juliet is concerned that her family will kill Romeo if they find him
Romeo is more concerned with his love for Juliet, and is not worried about the threat of
death
I have nights cloak to hide me from their eyes (75)
Darkness Imagery
Romeo is shielded/hidden by the darkness
My life were better ended by their hate/Than death prorogud, wanting of thy love (75)
Romeo says that he would rather die than live without Juliets love
Dramatic Irony
Juliet confesses her true love for Romeo
Swear by thy gracious self/Which is the god of my idolatry
Juliet worships Romeo like one would worship a god
Religious connection (Romeo is compared to a god)
Juliet is willing to marry Romeo and give up all of her fortunes to follow him
Juliet and Romeo promise to meet the next day, leaving each other for the night

Scene 3
Friar Lawrence, a priest, is collecting medicinal plants and flowers
Romeo enters, and tells Friar Lawrence that he is in love with Juliet, the daughter of his
enemy

 Romeo then asks Friar Lawrence if he could marry them that day
Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear/So soon forsaken? Young mens love then
lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes (89)
Friar Lawrence comments on Romeos quick change from being in love
with Rosaline to being in love with Juliet
Friar Lawrence also makes the observation that Romeos love for Juliet
may be for her physical appearance
Her love I now/Doth grace for grace and love for love allow/The other
did not so (89)
While Romeos love for Rosaline was unrequited, his
love for Juliet is not. Juliet loves him back.
For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households rancor to
pure love
Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet, as he
believes that this marriage will end the fued between the Capulets and the
Montagues.

Scene 4

Mercutio and Benvolio dont know where Romeo is

Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wenchs black eye (91)
Mercutio says that Romeo is already dead from falling in love
Dramatic Irony: Falling in love with Juliet will, ultimately, result in
Romeos death
Tybalt sends a letter, challenging Romeo to a duel
Tybalt is a very skilled fighter
Mercutio and Benvolio wonder is he a man to encounter Tybalt? (91),
asking if Romeo is still strong enough to beat Tybalt after being weakened by love
Romeo returns and begins joking around with Mercutio and Benvolio
The Nurse enters, looking for Romeo. Mercutio and Benvolio make fun of the Nurse
After Mercutio and Benvolio leave, Romeo tells the Nurse to encourage Juliet to sneak
out of her house and go to see Friar Lawrence so that they could be married that afternoon
O, there is/a nobleman in town, on Paris, that would fain lay/knife aboard, but she, good
soul, had as lief see a toad, a very toad, as to see him (103)
The Nurse tells Romeo of Juliets suitor, Paris
But, she also says that Juliet is not interested in Paris, as she is in love
with Romeo

Scene 5

The Nurse returns to the Capulet house, where Juliet is waiting to hear news of Romeo
Juliet is anxious to hear about Romeo and his plans for marriage
The Nurse, tired from her journey, delays telling Juliet about Romeo
I am aweary (105)
Lord, how my head aches (107)


(109)

Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrences cell/ There stays a husband to make you a wife
Finally, the Nurse tells Juliet to meet Romeo that afternoon at Friar
Lawrences cell where she normally makes confession, where they will get married
Importance of religion (confession) in important actions
made by Romeo and Juliet

Scene 6

Dramatic Irony
So smile the heavens upon this holy act/That after-hours with sorrow
chide us not (109)
Friar Lawrence says that he hopes that the marriage of
Romeo and Juliet will not have any regrettable consequences, while we know
that their marriage will lead to their deaths
These violent delights have violent ends (109) Therefore love
moderately. Long love doth so/Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow (111)
The sudden passion that Romeo and Juliet have has the
potential to cause damage, and that slowly developed love is better.
Juliet meets Romeo and Friar Lawrence
Juliet and Romeo confess their love for each other once again
Friar Lawrence begins to marry them

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Act 3

Scene 1

(119)

Mercutio and Benvolio are together when Tybalt enters

Tybalt is looking for Romeo (thou consortest with Romeo (117))
Romeo enters
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee/Doth much excuse the appertaining rage

Romeo stops fighting with Tybalt, as he is in love with Juliet, Tybalts

cousin
However, Tybalt, not knowing that Romeo is in love with his cousin, continues to
provoke a fight that Romeo refuses
And so, good Capulet, which name I tender/As dearly as mine own, be satisfied (119)
The name Capulet is now very important to Romeo, as he is in love with
Juliet
Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk? (119)
Mercutio, angered by Tybalt, chooses to fight him instead of Romeo
Mercutio begins fighting Tybalt
While Romeo is trying to end the conflict, Tybalt stabs Mercutio
Mercutio is angry at Romeo for not defending him when he was fighting Tybalt

 O sweet Juliet/Thy beauty hath made me effeminate/And in my temper softened valors

steel (123)
Romeo says that his love for Juliet has made him weak. Before they were
in love, Romeo was strong and brave, but now, he was too weak to help Mercutio in his
fight with Tybalt.
Mercutio dies
This days black fate on more days doth depend/This but begins the woe others must
end (123)
Dramatic Irony
Romeo says that the day that Mercutio dies will cause a
terrible problem that other people will need to end. We know that this event helps
lead to Romeo and Juliets deaths and the end of the fighting between the two
houses.
Tybalt returns. Romeo fights him in honor of Mercutio, and eventually kills Tybalt.
The Prince will doom thee death/ If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away. (125)
Benvolio warns Romeo that the Prince will condemn him to death for
killing Tybalt if he doesnt leave. Romeo leaves just before others arrive at the scene.
For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague (127)
The Capulets want the Prince to kill a Montague as a punishment for
killing the Capulet, Tybalt
For that offense/Immediately we do exile him hence (129)
Instead of condemning Romeo to death, the Prince calls for him to be
exiled from Verona

Scene 2
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night/That runaways eyes may wink, and
Romeo/Leap into these arms, untalked of and unseen (129)
Juliet describes/associates Romeo with the nighttime, when she is able to
see him.
Darkness Imagery
When the Nurse enters, she confuses Juliet, making her think that Romeo was dead
instead of Tybalt.
Finally, Juliet learns that Tybalt was killed by Romeo, and that Romeo has been banished
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!/Dove-feathered raven, wolf-ravishing lamb! (135)
Juliet uses oxymorons, or opposite images (ex. beautiful and tyrant have
opposite meanings) to display her conflicting feelings for Romeo after she learns the
news of his banishment
Is my father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet/All slain, all dead (137)
Juliet says that her family, herself, and Romeo have all been killed by the
news that Tybalt is dead
Dramatic Irony: The killing of Tybalt will lead to Romeo and Juliets
actual deaths
The Nurse goes to find Romeo, who is hiding in Friar Lawrences cell
Give this ring to my true knight/And bid him come to take his last farewell (139)
Juliet gives the Nurse her ring to give to Romeo
She also asks the Nurse to bring Romeo to her so that they could say
goodbye before he leaves Verona

Scene 3
Friar Lawrence tells Romeo of his banishment
Heaven is here/Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog/And every little mouse, every
unworthy thing/Live here in heaven and may look on her/But Romeo may not (143)
Religious connection: Romeo compares Juliet to Heaven
Romeo thinks that he wont be able to see Juliet again after his
banishment
Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife/No sudden mean of death, though
neer so mean/But banishd to kill me? (143)
Romeo wants to commit suicide to end the suffering of never seeing
Juliet again
The Nurse enters and tells of Juliets sadness
Wilt thou slay thyself/And slay thy lady in thy life/By doing damnd hate upon thyself
(149)
Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that if he kills himself out of grief, then he
will also kill Juliet who now shares his life through marriage
Dramatic Irony: We know that both Romeo and Juliet will kill
themselves when they believe that the other is dead
Friar Lawrence allows Romeo to go see Juliet before he leaves to Mantua
The Nurse gives Romeo Juliets ring and they leave for Juliets house

Scene 4
Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckily/That we have had no time to move our
daughter (153)
Capulet tells Paris that because of Tybalts death, they had not yet
convinced Juliet to marry him
OThursday, tell her/She shall be married to this noble earl (155)
Capulet arrange for Juliet to marry Paris on Thursday, not knowing that
she is already married to Romeo

Scene 5
Romeo and Juliet are saying goodbye before the sun rises, so that Romeo can leave
without being seen or arrested
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low/As one dead in the bottom of a tomb (159)
Dramatic Irony: Both Romeo and Juliet will die in a tomb
Romeo leaves as the sun starts rising
Lady Capulet enters Juliets room
Evermore weeping for your cousins death? (161)

 Lady Capulet thinks that Juliet is upset because Tybalt has died, when
she is actually upset because Romeo has left
Ill send to one in Mantua/Where the same banished runagate doth live/Shall give him
such an unaccustomed dram/That he shall soon keep Tybalt company (163)
Lady Capulet says that she will get revenge for Tybalts death by
poisoning Romeo
Dramatic Irony: Romeo will die from poisoning himself
The Capulets tell Juliet of her arranged marriage to Paris that Thursday
Upset, Juliet refuses to marry Paris, and her father threatens to throw her out of the house
if she does not marry Paris.
Delay this marriage for a month, a week/Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed/In that
dim monument where Tybalt lies (171)
Juliet says that if she is forced to marry Paris, she will die, just like
Tybalt
Dramatic Irony: Juliet will die with Romeo together in a tomb
Ill to the Friar to know his remedy/If all else fail, myself have power to die (173)
Juliet leaves her house to go to Friar Lawrences, where she hopes to get
help and answers to her problem. If she does not get these answers, then she threatens to
kill herself.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Act 4
Scene 1
Paris is at Friar Lawrences discussing his upcoming marriage to Juliet
Juliet enters, and Paris leaves, thinking that he and Juliet are getting married on Thursday
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it/If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help/Do
thou but call my resolution wise/And with this knife Ill help it presently (181)
Juliet threatens to kill herself if Friar Lawrence cant help her
Take thou this vial, being then in bed/And this distilling liquor drink thou off/When
presently through all thy veins shall run/A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse/Shall keep his
native progress (183); Thou shalt continue two and forty hour/And then awake as from a
pleasant sleep (185)
Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a vial that will cause her to appear dead
This potion will cause Juliets family to think that shes dead, so that
when she awakes, she could escape and be with Romeo

Scene 2
Capulet is preparing for Juliets wedding with paris
Juliet returns and pretends to have learned to obey her fathers wishes and pretends to be
willing to marry Paris
Capulet moves the wedding to the next day, Wednesday, instead of on Thursday as a
result of Juliets willingness to marry Paris

Scene 3
Juliet asks the Nurse and her mother, Lady Capulet, to leave her room so that she can
drink the potion
What if this mixture do not work at all/Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?/No,
no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there (191)
Juliet, nervous that the potion that Friar Lawrence had given to her will
not work, places a knife next to her bed, prepared to kill herself if she is not reunited with
Romeo
Juliet discusses all of her worries (the potion killing her, waking up before Romeo finds
her and being trapped in a tomb with the bodies of her ancestors, Tybalts body in the tomb, etc.)
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Heres drink. I drink to thee (193)
Juliet drinks the potion that Friar Lawrence gave to her and falls onto her
bed, seemingly dead

Scene 4

Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and Capulet are busy preparing for Juliet and Paris wedding
Go waken Juliet. (197)
Capulet sends the Nurse to go waken Juliet to prepare for her wedding,
but we know that Juliet has taken the potion and will not wake up when the Nurse arrives.

Scene 5

Lady, lady, lady!/Alas, alas! Help, help! My ladys dead (199)

When the Nurse enters Juliets room, she sees Juliet in the potion-created
trance, and believes that she is dead
Out, alas, shes cold/Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff/Life and these lips have
long been separated/Death lies on her like an untimely frost/Upon the sweetest flower of all the
field (199)
The potion that Friar Lawrence gave Juliet did just as he promised,
making her appear dead.
Even in death, Capulet sees Juliets beauty (sweetest flower)
Alack, my child is dead/And with my child my joys are buried (203)
Everyone is deeply saddened by Juliets death
Capulet says that with Juliet, his joys and his happiness has also died
The most you sought was her promotion/For twas your heaven she should be
advanced/And weep you now, seeing she is advanced/Above the clouds, as high as heaven
itself? (203)
Friar Lawrence says that all that Juliets parents wanted for their
daughter was for her to marry someone rich and important to promote herself into
society, and for her to go to heaven. So, he criticizes them for being sad, when she had
fulfilled their wish and hadgone to heaven (though we know she just drank a potion
and isnt really dead).
On this fair corse (203)
Even in death, Juliet is described as being beautiful

Everyone begins to plan Juliets funeral

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Act 5

Scene 1

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead (211)

Dramatic Irony: Juliet will wake from her sleep and find Romeo dead
Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet has died, neither of them knowing that she took the

potion
Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight (213)
Romeo plans to die alongside Juliet
Let me have/A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear/As will
disperse itself through all veins/That the life-weary taker may fall dead (215)
Romeo buys poison from the Apothecary, a person who
sells medicine, to kill himself and be with Juliet
Romeo leaves to visit Juliets grave

Scene 2

I could not send it (here it is again)/Nor get a messenger to bring it thee (219)
Friar Lawrences letter to Romeo, explaining that Juliet was not dead,
was never given to Romeo. Therefore, Friar Lawrence realizes that Romeo thinks that
Juliet is dead
Friar Lawrence decides to go to Juliets tomb to wait for her to wake up, and also wait for
Romeo to explain the situation to him

Scene 3

Paris enters Juliets tomb

And in despite Ill cram thee with more food (223)
Romeo says that soon his body will be in the tomb alongside Juliets,
meaning that he is about to kill himself in the tomb
This is that banished haughty Montague/That murdered my loves cousin, with which
grief/It is supposd the fair creature died/And here is come to do some villainous shame/To the
dead bodies. I will apprehend him (223)
Paris still thinks that Romeo, who killed Tybalt in the duel, was the
reason that Juliet was so upset and died. So, he is going to fight Romeo to teach him a
lesson and get back at him for seemingly causing Juliets death
Romeo tells Paris to leave, and that he does not want to kill him; however, Paris refuses
to leave and they fight

O, I am slain! If thou be merciful/Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet (225)

Romeo kills Paris in the fight, and Paris requests to be buried next to
Juliet
Romeo, guilty, brings Paris near Juliet to be buried
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes/This vault a feasting presence full of
light-/Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred (225)
Juliet is beautiful, even in death
Light Imagery
Juliet, even in death, brings light to a dark tomb
Here, here will I remain/With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here/Will I set up
my everlasting rest (227)
Romeo, extremely upset by the sight of a dead Juliet, prepares to kill
himself next to her in the tomb
Thus with a kiss I die (227)
Romeo kisses Juliet, then dies
Friar Lawrence enters the tomb and Juliet wakes up
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead/And Paris, too. (231)
Friar Lawrence tells Juliet of Romeo and Paris deaths
O, happy dagger/This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die (231)
Juliet, very upset about the death of Romeo, takes his dagger and kills
herself
Here lies the County slain/And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead/Who here hath
lain this two days burid-/Go tell the Prince. Run to the Capulets/Raise up the Montagues. (233)
The Watch and the Page find Paris, Juliet (who is newly dead, even
though they thought that she had died two days earlier when she drank the potion), and
Romeo in the tomb and run to tell everyone
The Capulets and the Montagues arrive, and are told the news of their childrens deaths
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet/And she, there dead, [that] Romeos
faithful wife/I married them, and their stoln marriage day/Was Tybalts doomsday (237)
Friar Lawrence finally explains the entire story of Romeo and Juliet to
their families
Where be these enemies?-Capulet, Montague/See what a scourge is laid upon your
hate/That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love/And I, for winking at your discords,
too/Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished
The Prince blames the death of Romeo and Juliet on the feud between
the Capulets and the Montagues. He believes that their death will be a punishment to the
families for this feud.
O brother Montague, give me thy hand/This is my daughters jointure, for no more/Can
I demand ; As rich shall Romeos by his ladys lie/Poor sacrifices of our enmity (243)
Capulet and Montague end their feud. They vow to respect their children
and their love as a sacrifice for their feud.
A glooming peace this morning brings/The sun for sorrow will not show his head (243)
Darkness Imagery
The sky will be dark (there will be no sun) as a result of the gloom from
Romeo and Juliets deaths
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things/Some shall be pardoned, and some
punishd/For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo (243)

 The Prince says that some, like Friar Lawrence, are pardoned from the
deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Others, like the Capulets and the Montagues, will forever be
punished.
Romeo and Juliets story is of pain and sadness