Act 5 Scene 3

Summary: Paris walked into the graveyard, and he takes flowers and torch to the place. Then, he orders his man to stay away from the yard, and if someone is approaching, just whistles. Then, he begins to scatter flowers on Juliet’s grave.  He hears the whistle from page, so he hides in the dark, without any lights on. He sees a man is coming. Romeo and Balthasars enter, and Romeo carries a crowbar. Romeo says to Balthasars that he is here because he wants to take a ring from Juliet that he had given to her, and Balthasars should leave. He gives Balthasars a letter, and command him to give it to his lord in the morning. Afterward, Romeo gives him money. Balthasar agrees, yet mistrusts his master. As a result, he hides in the dark and sees what will happened. Paris sees Romeo, and recognizes him as the one who kills Tybalt directly, and kills Juliet indirectly(because Juliet is sad and upset about the death of Tybalt, so she chooses to die, and Romeo is expelled from Verona), so he thinks Romeo now hates Capulet that he wants to do something with the corpse to release his anger. Paris comes forward, and wants him to stop revengening from the death bodies, or he will catch him. Romeo pleads Paris to leave, yet Paris refuses, so they take out their swords and ready to fight. Romeo then kills Paris. As he dies, he wants to lay near with Juliet’s tomb, Romeo consents. Romeo pulls out the tomb, and carries Paris’s body nearby Juliet’s. He finds Juliet lying peacefully, and wonders how she can still look so beautiful when she died. Romeo wants to die with her in the tomb, and stays with her forever in the tomb, so that she will not be afraid. He kisses Juliet, drinks the poison, kisses Juliet again, and dies.

Then, Friar enters, He meets Balthasar, who tells him that Romeo is in the tomb. Balthasar says that, his master, Romeo was there for half an hour, and he falls asleep there, he dreams that Romeo is fighting with someone, and he kills that people. The Friar is frightened, but then he enters the tomb, where he finds Paris’s body and then Romeo’s. As the Friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes up in the tomb.

Juliet asks the friar where her husband is. Hearing a noise that he believes is the coming from outside of tomb, so it must be 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 is afraid that the watch will come soon, so he exits without her. Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and guesses that he has drunk poison from the empty vial. She hopes that she can die by the same poison. As a result, Juliet kisses his lips, but this doesn’t work. She hears the approaching watch, Juliet pulls out Romeo’s dagger. She dies besides Romeo.

Paris’s page has brought the watch, and the watchmen discover bloodstains near the tomb. At the same time, they hold Balthasar and Friar Lawrence, who they discovered wandering nearby the tomb. The watchmen discover the new scars and bleeding from Juliet, even she was died two days ago. They decide to ring the Prince, Capulets and Montagues.  The Prince and the Capulets enter. They are curious why they should wake up so early in the morning. Then, the chief says Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are discovered in the tomb. Prince says investigation must be hold. They discover that the tools for Montague was appeared in Juliet’s breast.  Montague arrives, declaring that Lady Montague has died because of the banished of Romeo. The Prince shows Montague his son’s body. He is so sad that his son had left him in the grave. Upon the Prince’s request, Friar Lawrence tells the story of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage and the whole thing that had happened.  Balthasar gives the Prince the letter Romeo had previously written to his father. The Prince says that it confirms the friar’s story. 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. Capulet and Montague shake hands and agree to put their hatred behind them. Montague says that he will build a golden statue of Juliet, and Capulet declares that he will build a golden statue beside hers.

Thinking: If the two servants are behind, they can probably prevent the whole thing happened. Although they are told to keep away from the tomb, they can still ring a bell to the watchmen, so there won’t be so many people had died in the same place. The miscommunication had caused the two young people couldn’t be together, and I feel so sad for them. Everything was being arranged by Friar, and eventually they couldn’t prevent from dying. I think Friar should tell their parents even Juliet decides to drink that potion, so it can avoid the death of the two people. I feel kind of sympathy for the two young teens. Because they love each other, they couldn’t even live? The parents could act more sad especially Lady Capulet, because her daughter just died, and maybe become melancholy at the end that always blame on her. Maybe the nurse could also be in the scene, and it will add up the sadness of each family, and also the situation.