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Death in Romeo and Juliet
Six people die. Juliet talks about her grave before her wedding. Love and death are tangled together from the first scene.
The quotes
16 quotes, in the order they happen.
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Chorus · Prologue · fate · death · love
The stars are against them. The play tells you the ending before it starts.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Juliet · Act 1, Scene 5 · death · love · fate
If she cannot marry him, she will die unmarried. It comes true in a way she does not mean.
These violent delights have violent ends
Friar Lawrence · Act 2, Scene 6 · fate · love · death
Love this wild ends badly. The Friar says it and then marries them anyway.
A plague o' both your houses.
Mercutio · Act 3, Scene 1 · hate · death · family
Dying, Mercutio curses both families. The feud killed him and he was not in it.
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Mercutio · Act 3, Scene 1 · death
Grave means serious, and a grave. He jokes as he dies.
Come gentle night, come loving black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 2 · love · light and dark · death
Juliet wants the dark. Night is where love happens in this play, and where death does.
If all else fail, myself have power to die.
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 5 · death · fate
Alone now, Juliet says she can always kill herself. It is her plan of last resort.
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower
Juliet · Act 4, Scene 1 · love · death · youth
She would jump off a tower before marrying Paris. The Friar offers her a potion instead.
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here's drink! I drink to thee.
Juliet · Act 4, Scene 3 · love · death
She drinks the potion alone, with his name.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Capulet · Act 4, Scene 5 · death · family
Her father finds her 'dead'. Frost on a flower. Too early.
Then I defy you, stars!
Romeo · Act 5, Scene 1 · fate · death
He hears Juliet is dead. He will fight fate itself. He buys poison.
Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo · Act 5, Scene 3 · love · death
Romeo's last words. He drinks the poison beside Juliet, who is about to wake.
O happy dagger
Juliet · Act 5, Scene 3 · death · love
She wakes, finds him dead, and uses his dagger. Happy because it lets her follow him.
For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince · Act 5, Scene 3 · death · love
The last lines. The saddest story there is.
O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.
Romeo · Act 5, Scene 3 · death
The poison works fast. He has time for one more line.
O brother Montague, give me thy hand
Capulet · Act 5, Scene 3 · family · hate · death
The fathers shake hands over their dead children. The feud ends too late.
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