Act+5+Scene+3

**(more still to come)** **Romeo and Juliet-Scene Analysis ** By Nimaya Kodikara 9B **//ACT 5 Scene 3 //** **Scene summary ** It is late Thursday and Paris has come to grieve at Juliet’s tomb. Paris is met with Romeo on the way. Paris thinks Juliet killed herself as the result of Romeo killing her cousin, Tybalt. They fight and Romeo kills Paris. When Romeo sees Juliet dead he says his last farewell and drinks the poison he bought and dies. The friar and Balthazar meet and enter the Capels’ monument. To their astonishment they find Romeo dead just as Juliet awakens. Juliet finds out that her love has just killed himself for her and in return stabs herself in the heart. When the Capulets, the Montagues and the prince arrives, Friar Lawrence explains everything. Capulet and Montague finally resolve their feud and grieve together. The prince finishes up the scene and the play with a speech. **Dramatization ** **Poetic devices ** **Context analysis ** **Character analysis ** **Setting ** The scene is on late Thursday, Juliet’s tomb, churchyard, Verona. **Theme ** Love, hate, sorrow, sympathy, grief **Film adaptation ** In the film they don’t include the killing of Paris by Romeo when they come to grieve at Juliet’s tomb. In the movie, when Romeo has just drunk the poison, Juliet wakes up leaving at least a second for Juliet to see her love die in her arms. This is not shown in the play-Juliet wakes up after Romeo has died. In the last part of the scene the prince finishes up the play with a speech but in the film adaptation there was no speech. **<span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Key quotes ** //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“That murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief, // //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">It is supposed the fair creature died. // //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">And here is come to do some villainous shame // //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">To the dead bodies.” //<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> – PARIS (hate)