The tragic conclusion (Act 5 Scene 3)
The moment that I have decided to explain in detail from Act 5 was in scene 3 where Romeo and Juliet are confronted by Fate vs free will in a Tragic conclusion for Romeo, Juliet and all Capulets and Montagues. During the final act of Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet decide to take fate into their own hands and both are very emotional about each other and their actions easily show how much emotion, and how young they both were, and how they were not able to control what act 5 actually finished off with.
Sorrowful Paris stand at the door of the tomb, with his page boy, making sure that nobody is to break in. Balthasar and Romeo arrive, looking to break in, while Paris tries to restrict them from entering. Paris says “This is that banished haughty Montague, That murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief, It is supposed the fair creature died.And here is come to do some villainous shame.” Once Paris sees Romeo, he instantly recognises him as the very man that was the man to kill Tybalt. What …show more content…
Romeo states “How oft when men are at the point of death. Have they been merry, which their keepers call. A lightning before death! Oh, how may I Call this a lightning?—O my love, my wife!. Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there.” This small passage is explaining, how Juliet is able to light up the very dark and deathly tomb, where no light has entered, and how even though she has been taken too quick and she has died, that she is still as beautiful as she was the last time he saw her. Finally Romeo understandably devastated, he sits next to his beloved and drinks the Apothecary’s poison, kisses Juliet, and then dies. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence arrives at the Capulet tomb to find Paris’s body outside the
The moment that I have decided to explain in detail from Act 5 was in scene 3 where Romeo and Juliet are confronted by Fate vs free will in a Tragic conclusion for Romeo, Juliet and all Capulets and Montagues. During the final act of Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet decide to take fate into their own hands and both are very emotional about each other and their actions easily show how much emotion, and how young they both were, and how they were not able to control what act 5 actually finished off with.
Sorrowful Paris stand at the door of the tomb, with his page boy, making sure that nobody is to break in. Balthasar and Romeo arrive, looking to break in, while Paris tries to restrict them from entering. Paris says “This is that banished haughty Montague, That murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief, It is supposed the fair creature died.And here is come to do some villainous shame.” Once Paris sees Romeo, he instantly recognises him as the very man that was the man to kill Tybalt. What …show more content…
Romeo states “How oft when men are at the point of death. Have they been merry, which their keepers call. A lightning before death! Oh, how may I Call this a lightning?—O my love, my wife!. Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there.” This small passage is explaining, how Juliet is able to light up the very dark and deathly tomb, where no light has entered, and how even though she has been taken too quick and she has died, that she is still as beautiful as she was the last time he saw her. Finally Romeo understandably devastated, he sits next to his beloved and drinks the Apothecary’s poison, kisses Juliet, and then dies. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence arrives at the Capulet tomb to find Paris’s body outside the