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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