Benvolio and Mercutio had been informed of Tybalt’s plan to challenge Romeo to duel at the next point where their paths crossed. Meanwhile, Juliet’s wet nurse, whom was very close to her, had helped arrange the matrimony of the two. On Juliet’s time allotted for shrift , the lovers went into Friar Laurence’s cell and exchanged nuptials. Romeo returned to his friends, where he was confronted by Tybalt, but refused to fight. Filled with rage, Mercutio had drawn on Tybalt, but was fatally wounded. Tybalt then duelled with Romeo, who killed him. Romeo absconded, having realized that he killed someone who was part of his family and envisaged his own death. Devastated and awestruck, Benvolio reported the incident to the Prince, who banished Romeo from Verona. The nurse told Juliet of Romeo’s banishment and promised to bring him to her so that they could consummate their marriage. Friar Laurence told a distraught Romeo that he had been banished, and but condones him to sojourn secretly with Juliet for one night before leaving for …show more content…
Anxiously, Lord Capulet expedited the wedding, moving it to one day earlier. Juliet drank the concoction. As expected, when her nurse attempted to wake her up the next morning, she discovered that Juliet was ‘dead’. Juliet was delivered to the family monument, where all mourned her inexplicable ‘death’. In Mantua, Balthasar told Romeo that Juliet had died. Having obtained poison from an apothecary, Romeo had planned on killing himself alongside Juliet’s ‘dead body’. Also in Mantua, Friar John, who was supposed to give Romeo the letter, but was unable to due to the Bubonic Plague quarantine, informed Friar Laurence of his inability to deliver. Apprehending what had occurred, Friar Laurence rushed to Juliet to ameliorate the misunderstanding. County Paris went to the monument to mourn Juliet, where, to his surprise, he encountered Romeo. The two fought succinctly, for Romeo had killed