Act 5 Scene 3 Summary

Time: Wednesday Evening

Setting: Churchyard belonging to Capulet’s

Characters: Paris; Page; Romeo; Balthasar; Friar Lawrence; Juliet; Page; First Watchman; Second Watchman; Third Watchman; Prince Escalus; Attendants; Montague.

Event: In this scene everything happened Paris starts to scatter flowers because of Juliet’s death Romeo arrives to take the ring of Juliet. Paris and Romeo fight, Romeo wins because he did not care if he died in the moment his love was dead. Romeo takes Paris body and puts it near Juliet then Romeo does what he decides to do and that is join Juliet for eterninty. He kisses Juliet, drinks the poison, kisses Juliet again, and dies. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters the churchyard. He finds 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. The friar enters the tomb, where he finds Paris’s body and then Romeo’s. As the friar sees the horrific tomb Juliet wakes. Friar talks to Balthasar while Juliet wakes up then sees Romeo dead and decides to take some of the poison he took by kissing him, it did not work so she finds the dagger and says “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath,” After the Prince finds out about this and blames the two families for this misfortune. The Capulet’s and Montague’s says we are sorry and come back as one family again.Prologue says “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend” This means only with the death of them lover s from each family shall the family be one again.

Quote:Oh, noise? Then I’ll be quick. Oh, good, a knife!
My body will be your sheath.
Rust inside my body and let me die.