Act 5 Scenes 1-3 : And They All Died Happily Ever After

PROMPT B

Romeo and Juliet's love is so strong that they feel that they can never live happily if the other is dead. When Romeo is informed of Juliet's first death by Balthasar, he is determined to die by her side with the help of a powerful poison. In turn, Juliet stabs herself in the chest to join Romeo after waking to find him lying dead. This reminds me very much of the relationship between two brothers on the show Supernatural. Dean and Sam Winchester have developed a close bond because their mother died when they were quite young and their father was always on business trips and left his children in various motels, so Dean practically raised Sam. Throughout the show, the brothers both die or almost die numerous times and are almost always brought back to life or health by the help of supernatural forces. The brothers are always willing to do whatever it takes to resurrect or save their brother. 

PROMPT C

Prince--why didn't you address the urgency between the Montagues and the Capulets sooner?

Romeo--why do you trust that Juliet is dead immediately?

Friar Lawrence--why didn't you inform Romeo of the plan before it was set in motion to avoid deadly confusion?

Paris--why are you so upset about Juliet's death? Why do you not want to be seen when placing flowers on Juliet's deathbed?

Montagues and Capulets--if you cannot recall why your families are blood enemies in the first place, then why do you continue to show hatred towards one another?

Act 5, endless love

( Prompt D ) The quote "I defy you stars" means that Romeo is still hoping to see Juliet. He knows that destiny is gonna bring them back together and if there was they were gonna live it happily. But when he heard the news that Juliet is dead he went in the chapel and drank the poison, to think that they are still lovers till eternity. But Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo lying in the ground not breathing, so she grabbed his knife and stabs herself.

( Prompt C )
Friar Lawrence-Why didn't you tell Romeo that it was just a foreplay?
Juliet-Why didn't you wake up earlier?
Romeo-Why did you kill yourself?
Lord Capulet-Do you think you're the one who is responsible for Romeo and Juliet's suicide?
Lord Montague-What do you feel about Romeo and Juliet's suicide?

Act 4, scene 4-5

(Prompt A) Act 4 continues with Juliet taking the sleeping pill and thinking about what if's, but she conquered her questionable thoughts and takes the pill anyway. When the nurse saw Juliet dead, the nurse called Lord and Lady Capulet to let them know that Juliet is dead. Peter, the Capulets peasant told the musicians to play a somewhat happy song but they resist and Peter walked away leaving the musicians wondering if they're gonna eat the food. But later on Romeo went and I'm gonna talk about that next entry.

( Prompt C )
Peter-Why are you not working for Montagues?
Nurse-Why don't you know this at the first place?
Lord Capulet-Do you think its your fault for the death of Romeo and Juliet?
Lady Capulet-Were you responsible for the death of Juliet?
Romeo-Why didn't you talk to Friar Lawrence?

Act 5: Communication is Key

1- Prompt B
I hear lots of people talking about how their dreams become a reality and how it's creepy (not specific to any person). It's very similar to the situation in the book. In scene 1, Romeo describes a dream he has where he is dead and Juliet kisses her. After that he is revived from it. Later, in scene 3, the exact dream happens, with the exception of Romeo being revived. Romeo kills himself with a potion and Juliet wakes up to find both Paris and Romeo dead in the tomb. She kisses Romeo in hopes of getting the same potion Romeo got but in the end she stabbed herself with a dagger.

2- Prompt D
"O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop"(p231). I found this quote interesting for the words used. Juliet says churl, which means selfish one. It makes nearly no sense for Juliet to call Romeo selfish for drinking all of the potion. Also, saying friendly drop is ironic; the poison is deadly, and completely the opposite of friendly. For her situation it could be "friendly" since she wants to die, and having a deadly potion would be helpful.

Romeo and Juliet: Act 5; Death and Tragedy

Prompt C:

Paris: Why would you not want to be seen when visiting Juliet's grave?
Friar Lawrence: How did you not know that Romeo could have heard about Juliet's death and thought it was real?
Paris: Why did you insist on arresting Romeo so badly?
Romeo: Why would you agree to place Paris' body next to Juliet when you love her?
Juliet: Why would you kill yourself just because Romeo is dead?
The Prince: Do you think the feud between the Capulets and Monatgues are finally over?

Prompt D:

In scene 5, act 3, the prince says, “a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (243). This speaks to the story as a whole, and the prince exclaims at how the relationship between Romeo and Juliet was such a tragedy. The relationship seemed doomed from the start, they were from different, feuding houses that have never gotten along. However, they still got married and secret, and things looked like they could work out. This hope is crushed when Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo gets banished, and it seems like his and Juliet's love wasn't going to work after all. However, Friar Lawrence thinks of a plan, albeit somewhat risky, that will finally reunite the couple for good. But, because of fate, the friar, or some other factor, the whole situation turns south, resulting in a lot of death. As the prince said, the story of Romeo and Juliet is the most woeful of all, because there were many times things looked like it could have possibly worked out. But in the end. tragedy occurred and made this story one of ultimate woe.

Act 5 : "you gave me a forever within number of days"

Prompt D :" I defy you stars".  This refers to fate. he believed that fate would bring Juliet in him together and that they were destined. Now that he thinks Juliet is dead, he doesn't believe in fate anymore. he decides hat he doesn't need fate anymore.

Prompt c:
Juliet_ you said you would rather die than marry paris right, even though romeo Is dead, would you consider running way alone instead of killing yourself?
Romeo- Why didn't you at least meet with frair before killing yourself?
Frair- D you feel party responsible for Romeo and Juliets deaths?
Everyone- Who do you think Is at blame the deaths?
Prince- Do you think if you had stop the fighting with the Caplets and Montague's sooner, Romeo ad Juliet would still be dead?

Prompt B :
In the fault in our Stars, there is a quote that says " and in the end we can blame the stars or tell ourselves that it wasn't meant t be, that it wasn't destined to happen. But deep down we now that the stars were not at fault and it wasn't ' meant to be'. The fault was in ourselves". This quote is very similar to when Romeo finds out Juliet is dead.  In the fault in our stars when (something I'm ot trying to spoil) happens they get upset and ask why me. Romeo asks the same thing and pretends to blame fate when really the problem was the feud between the two families and the poor execution of the plan.

Act 5 Endless Love Brings Tragedy

Prompt A
The scene opens with Romeo walking through the streets of Mantua contemplating his banishment and its effect on Juliet. One of his men comes in with news of Juliet's death and Romeo is stricken with grief. Romeo decides that he will kill himself too so that they can be at last reunited-- in death. He goes to the apothecary and forces the shop owner to sell him poison so that he may finally lay with his true love. When he enters the tomb, he speaks to Juliet and then he is confronted by County Paris, whom was also in the tomb looking at Juliet's body. Romeo begins to go a bit insane and duels with County Paris. He kills him, and then regrets it, because it was not until then that he realized who it was. He then goes to Juliet and proclaims his undying love for her, drinks the fatal poison, plants a kiss upon her lips, and slumps to the floor, dead. The friar comes in and sees the dead bodies and realizes the flaws in his plan. Juliet wakes up as he walks in, and after hearing of what happened to Romeo and hearing some Capulet men coming to the tomb, the Friar leaves and Juliet stabs herself to be dead with Romeo. The Capulet men find all the dead bodies and get the Prince, Montagues, and Capulets, and they find the Friar and one of Romeo's men near the time. When the families and the Prince arrive, the Friar explains what happened to their kids. The Prince scolds the Montagues and Capulets, blaming there incessant feud on their poor kids' fates. The Montagues and Capulets then resolve any issues they have for the sake of their children. The scene ends with a fade-out on the image of Romeo and Juliet's bodies lying side-by-side.

Prompt D
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings.

• The sun for sorrow will not show his head.

Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.

• Some shall be pardoned, and some punished,
• For never was a story of more woe
• Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

I like this quote because it shows that in the tragedy of these kids, the families have finally ended their feud. There are good and bad aspects to it, however. It is good that they have finally learned to put any differences behind them and just get on with their lives. Now, no one can be harmed from their endless fighting. The unfortunate aspect is that the two families could not realize how silly their feud was until they both experienced tragedies.

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