Who finds Juliet in her bed?

Act 4, scene 4 The Capulets and the Nurse stay up all night to get ready for the wedding. Capulet, hearing Paris approach with musicians, orders the Nurse to wake Juliet. Act 4, scene 5 The Nurse finds Juliet in the deathlike trance caused by the Friar's potion and announces Juliet's death.

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Who finds Juliet dead in the tomb?

As Friar Lawrence enters the tomb, Juliet awakes to find Romeo lying dead. Frightened by a noise, the Friar flees the tomb. Juliet kills herself with Romeo's dagger. Alerted by Paris's page, the watch arrives and finds the bodies.

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How does Romeo find out Juliet?

Romeo and Juliet's First Meeting

Romeo is overheard talking about Juliet by Tybalt. Tybalt wants to remove Romeo from the party but Lord Capulet stops him. Romeo and Juliet meet and kiss each other before the Nurse calls Juliet away. Afterwards, they discover each other's true identity.

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How did Lady Capulet react to Juliet's death?

Weeping over Juliet's body, she says “My child, my only life,/Revive, look up, or I will die with thee.” At this moment, she must desperately regret having said the cruel things that she did in Act 3, scene 5, as all parents regret the things they have said in anger.

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What does Juliet find out from the nurse?

Act 3, scene 2 Juliet longs for Romeo to come to her. The Nurse arrives with the news that Romeo has killed Tybalt and has been banished.

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Does the nurse betray Juliet?

The Nurse recognizes that Juliet shows no interest in Paris' courting and is the only member of the older generation to take Juliet's feelings into consideration…that is, until she suddenly betrays Juliet's trust by saying that she should marry Paris.

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Who discovered Juliet's body?

Act 4, scene 5 The Nurse finds Juliet in the deathlike trance caused by the Friar's potion and announces Juliet's death.

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What does Juliet say before she dies?

Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself (5.3. 171). She dies upon Romeo's body.

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Is Lady Capulet in love with Tybalt?

The 1996 film adaptation implies that Tybalt and Lady Capulet are in love, but the play itself does not necessarily imply this.

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Why did Juliet fake her death?

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. She expects that when she wakes from this slumber, she and Romeo will leave Verona together.

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What did Romeo say when he saw Juliet dead?

Balthasar replies that nothing can be ill, then, for Juliet is well: she is in heaven, found dead that morning at her home. Thunderstruck, Romeo cries out, “Then I defy you, stars” (5.1. 24).

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Who told Romeo that Juliet was dead?

Romeo's man, Balthasar, arrives in Mantua with news of Juliet's death. Romeo sends him to hire horses for their immediate return to Verona. Romeo then buys poison so that he can join Juliet in death in the Capulets' burial vault.

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What does Romeo compare kissing to?

Shakespeare uses the metaphor of "sin" (lines 118-121) to describe their kissing. This metaphor develops their relationship as playful, as Romeo claims his sins are "purged" (line 118), or cleansed by Juliet's lips. Juliet responds that if her lips have indeed "purged" Romeo's sin, then her lips now have his sin.

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Who first discovers Juliet's fake death?

Scene Summary: The Nurse finds Juliet, apparently dead. Hearing the commotion the Nurse makes, Capulet and Lady Capulet enter, horrified to find their daughter in such a state. Then Friar Laurence and Paris arrive to fetch the bride for the wedding, and everyone grieves her loss.

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Who helped Juliet fake her death?

After Paris leaves, she threatens suicide if Friar Lawrence cannot save her from marrying Paris. Friar Lawrence gives her a potion that will make her appear as if dead the morning of the wedding.

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What are Romeo's last words?

O happy dagger, This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die.

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Who is Tybalt in love with?

Shakesqueer: Tybalt and Mercutio Fall in Love in Verona - Yale Daily News.

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Why is Tybalt a villain?

Tybalt is extremely hotheaded, violent, merciless and calculating. He possesses a legendary temper. He is intelligent and manipulative, so he quickly recognized Romeo at the party and felt he was there to disturb the peace.

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Who is the real villain in Romeo and Juliet?

Lord Fulgencio Capulet, better known as Lord Capulet or also simply known as Capulet, is the main antagonist in the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet, taking the place of the notorious rival Tybalt after the latter's death.

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Why is Paris at Juliet's grave?

Answer and Explanation: In Romeo and Juliet, Paris is at Juliet's tomb because he is mourning her and has come to place flowers at her grave. Paris says he is there to weep over the loss of Juliet and that ''The obsequies that I for thee will keep/Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.

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Why does Juliet kiss Romeo's lips even after he already died?

Why does Juliet kiss Romeo's lips even after he already died? She spots the vial of poison and hopes there's enough poison left on his lips to allow her to die, as well. (Juliet says, "Thy lips are warm!" This is, quite arguably, one of the saddest lines in the entire play.)

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Why does Juliet go into a coma?

In the final act of Romeo and Juliet, our tragic heroine takes a potion to fake her own death and place her into a catatonic state.

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Who is the last person to see Juliet alive?

Overcome by sorrow, Juliet sends him away and kills herself soon afterward. Thus, a strict interpretation of the text reveals that Friar Laurence was the last person to see Juliet alive.

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What caused Juliet's death?

At the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide. Although they killed themselves, there were other factors that led them to their demise. The three major causes of Romeo and Juliet's deaths were bad choices, adult interference, and bad luck.

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Who gave Juliet the drug?

To avoid this marriage, Juliet takes a potion, given her by the friar, that makes her appear dead. The friar will send Romeo word to be at her family tomb when she awakes. The plan goes awry, and Romeo learns instead that she is dead.

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