Act 3, Scene 5 (2024)

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Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 5 Summary

It is at this point that Juliet, remembering that Romeo will be executed if he stays, concedes that it is morning and begins pushing Romeo out. As she does, she receives a vision where Romeo looks dead as he stares back up at her.

Act 5, scene 3 Paris visits Juliet's tomb and, when Romeo arrives, challenges him. Romeo and Paris fight and Paris is killed. Romeo, in the tomb, takes poison, dying as he kisses Juliet. As Friar Lawrence enters the tomb, Juliet awakes to find Romeo lying dead.

The scene starts with Lady Capulet telling Juliet that Lord Capulet has arranged her marriage to Paris in four days' time. Juliet refuses to marry and her father threatens to disown her.

The Nurse recommends that Juliet forget the banished Romeo and regard Paris as a more desirable husband. Juliet is secretly outraged at the Nurse's advice and decides to seek Friar Lawrence's help. Act 4, scene 1 Paris is talking with Friar Lawrence about the coming wedding when Juliet arrives.

In Act 3, Scene 5, Juliet sees Romeo for the last time before his exile to Mantua. As he leaves her house, she has a vision of him dead in a tomb, unwittingly foreshadowing the closing scene of the play: O God, I have an ill-divining soul!

Juliet is mad with rage and desperation as she threatens suicide should her parents force her to go through with the marriage to Paris. Again, her feelings—any feelings connected to her love for Romeo—are so intense that in trying to express them she resorts to violent thoughts and speech.

Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises from the empty vial that he has drunk poison. Hoping she might die by the same poison, Juliet kisses his lips, but to no avail. Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself (5.3. 171).

Here's to my love. O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

Juliet feigns death to avoid her arranged marriage to Paris and free herself to leave with Romeo (whom she has already married). For the trick, she drinks a substance that gives her the appearance of death.

What occurs in act 3 scene 5 to alienate her from her family? When she finds out she is marrying Paris but she doesn't want to because she is married to Romeo she tells her parents she will not marry Paris and her father and mother turns away from her the nurse tells her.

How do Juliet's nurse and parents react to her death Act 4 Scene 5? ›

The nurse cries for help, and Lady Capulet rushes in, grieving for her "only life." Capulet enters, asking about the delay. Upon learning of Juliet's "untimely" death, also mourns. Their wailing continues until Friar Laurence and Paris arrive.

Lady Capulet enters and assumes Juliet's visible grief is a result of Tybalt's death. But she comes bearing good news: Capulet has arranged for Juliet to marry Paris, and soon. Juliet refuses, and continues to do so even when her father enters and threatens to throw her out if she doesn't.

The final thing we see is that Lord Capulet expects a relationship from his daughter that is complete obedience. Likewise, her mother expects Juliet to do as he commands, saying when Juliet refuses to marry Paris, "I would the fool were married to her grave!," in other words, I wish she were dead.

Though disgusted by her nurse's disloyalty, Juliet pretends to agree, and tells her nurse that she is going to make confession at Friar Lawrence's. Juliet hurries to the friar, vowing that she will never again trust the Nurse's counsel.

Lady Capulet enters and assumes Juliet's visible grief is a result of Tybalt's death. But she comes bearing good news: Capulet has arranged for Juliet to marry Paris, and soon. Juliet refuses, and continues to do so even when her father enters and threatens to throw her out if she doesn't.

Discussion of the double meaning of the word "wreak" in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5. This line uses two meanings of "wreak": Juliet wants to avenge (wreak) the loss of Tybalt. She wants to express (wreak) her love for Romeo, which was like the love that she had for Tybalt.

When Juliet next sees Romeo he will be dead, and as she looks out of her window she seems to see him dead already: “O God, I have an ill-divining soul! / Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale” (3.5. 54–57).

Act 3 Scene 5

Hecate, the Goddess of Witchcraft, is angry with the witches for giving prophecies to Macbeth without consulting her. She tells them to meet her in the morning where they will tell Macbeth his 'destiny' and lead him on to 'his confusion'.

After Paris leaves, Juliet tells the Friar she is resolved to kill herself if he can offer no solution out of the impending marriage. The Friar offers her a plan: agree to the marriage, but drink a poison the night before that will make her appear dead while in reality leaving her asleep.