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"In Sophocles, Haemon killed himself at the tomb of Antigone, as does Romeo in the tomb of Juliet; but Sophocles does not show us this scene of love and death; gloomy vaults do not accord with ideas of love and marriage in Greek art.
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Jul 31, 2015 · Romeo, in the tomb, takes poison, dying as he kisses Juliet. As Friar Lawrence enters the tomb, Juliet awakes to find Romeo lying dead. Frightened by a noise, the Friar flees the tomb. Juliet kills herself with Romeo’s dagger. Alerted by Paris’s page, the watch arrives and finds the bodies.
Juliet was distraught not over Tybalt’s death, but rather over Romeo’s banishment. To end her grief, you arranged for her to marry Count Paris. At that point she came to me, and, looking wild, threatened to kill herself unless I came up with a plan to help her escape this second marriage.
The chief watchman finds the “pitiful sight” of Paris, Romeo, and Juliet, all dead, in the bottom of the crypt—he realizes that Juliet was merely faking her death when she was buried two days ago but has now taken her own life for real.
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Give me your torch, boy. Go stand away from me. No, put out the torch. I’d rather not been seen. Lie there under those yew trees with your ears close to the ground. That way you’ll hear if anyone comes into the churchyard or tries to dig up a grave. If you hear someone, signal me by whistling. Give me those flowers. Do as I asked you to. Go.
Give me the ax and the crowbar. Hang on, take this letter. Make sure you deliver it to my father early in the morning. Give me the torch. On my life, I order you to stay here. Don’t follow me no matter what your hear or see. Don’t interrupt me in my business. I’m going into this tomb partly to see her face, but mostly because I have to take a preci...
Oh my comforting friar! Where is my husband? I remembered where I was going to wake up, and here I am. Where is my Romeo?
Here’s a friar we found trembling, sighing, and weeping. We took this ax and this spade away from him as he was coming from this side of the churchyard.
Some people in the street cried Romeo’s name, some cried Juliet’s, some cried Paris’, and all of them were running in the direction of our mausoleum.
Alas, my lord, my wife died tonight. She was overcome with grief after his exile. What further sorrow threatens me in my old age?
Romeo kills Paris. As he dies, Paris asks to be laid near Juliet in the tomb, and Romeo consents. Romeo descends into the tomb carrying Paris’s body. He finds Juliet lying peacefully, and wonders how she can still look so beautiful—as if she were not dead at all.
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Friar Laurence arrives and sees what’s transpired. Juliet wakes up, surrounded by death, and seeing Romeo dead, stabs herself. Paris’s page has brought in the cavalry.
