5.3 The Love-struck Ending

Prompt B:
Unity is brought between two sides with common sorrows.

Prompt C:
1. How does Balthasar hear about Juliet's death?
2. Does Paris suspect that someone will dig Juliet out of her grave when he tells Page to keep watch outside of the graveyard house?
3. Why do Romeo and Juliet decide to kill themselves to be together in heaven, instead of just running away from Verona to live elsewhere and be together?
4. Why is Romeo so strongly against Balthasar interrupting him in the graveyard house?
5. How does Romeo get to the graveyard so much faster than Friar Lawrence? How far is the graveyard from Verona?

Prompt F:
Romeo and Juliet are bound by a love so strong that they cannot stand to live without each other. When Romeo finds Juliet, still on the sleeping medication, in her coffin, he determines that she is dead. Romeo then kisses her and drink his poison... "'The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss, a dateless bargain to engrossing death,'" (227). When Juliet awakes and finds her lover dead, she shares the same feelings that Romeo did previously, and decides to kill herself to join him in heaven. Juliet then takes Romeo's dagger and exclaims, "'O, happy dagger, this is they sheath. There rust, and let me die.' [She takes Romeo's dagger, stabs herself. and dies]," (231). Romeo and Juliet are so loyal to each other that they are willing to kill themselves and leave sorrow in the rest of their families so that they can be with each other in heaven. It seems a little cheesy for two lovers to prefer death over not being with one another only weeks after meeting each other.