Comparing Act 1 Scene 5 Of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

It is Wednesday morning, on a street in Mantua. Romeo cheerfully recounts a wonderful dream he had the night before: Juliet found him lying dead, but breathed new life into his body with a kiss. Balthasar enters, and Romeo greets him happily, saying that he must have come from Verona with news of Juliet. Balthasar replies that Juliet is well because she is in heaven, and was found dead that morning at her home. Romeo is thunderstruck and tells Balthasar to hire horses. He is planning to return to Verona that night. Once Balthasar is gone, Romeo says that he will lie with Juliet that night. He goes to find an apothecary, a drug dealer. Romeo offers to pay the apothecary well for a vial of poison. Since selling poison in Mantua is illegal, the

He asks John how Romeo responded to the message, which described the plan involving Juliet’s false death. Unfortunately, John replies that he was unable to deliver the letter because he was refused to leave the quarantined house, after an outbreak of a plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset, realizing that Romeo is unaware about Juliet’s false death, there will be no one to retrieve her from the tomb when she awakes. The Friar declares that he will have to rescue Juliet from the tomb on his own. He sends another letter to Romeo as well to warn him about what happened, and plans to keep Juliet in his cell until Romeo

When the friar enters in the tomb, he finds both Paris and Romeo lying dead on the ground. As he is taking in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes up. From hearing a noise that he believes is the coming of the watch, the friar quickly replies that Romeo and Paris are dead, and that she must leave with him and he exits without her. Juliet sees Romeo’s body, and has found out that he has drunk poison. She hears the civil watch approaching quickly, and finds Romeo’s dagger. She stabs herself, and dies upon Romeo’s body. When the civil watch finally arrive at the scene, chaos abrupt in the churchyard as they discover the bodies and bloodstains near the tomb. They hold Balthasar and Friar Lawrence, who they discovered loitering nearby the scene. The Prince, Capulets, and Montagues enter. Montague has declared that Lady Montague has died of grief for Romeo’s exile. Upon the Prince’s request, Friar Lawrence concisely tells the story of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage. The prince blames the two families’ feud for the death of his two close kinsmen: Mercutio and Paris. Capulet and Montague agree to put their vendetta behind them at last. Montague says that he will build a golden statue of Juliet, and Capulet also insists that he will raise Romeo’s statue in gold beside