In Act 5, Friar Laurence sends the letter to Romeo. However, he was later imformed by Friar John that his letter was not send to Romeo. Meanwhile, Balthasar who is Romeo's servant is on his way to Mantua to pass on the news that dear Juliet have passed away. Romeo who heard the news now felt that there is not meaning to his life with Juliet dead, so he goes to a man asking him to give him poison so he can take his own life.

When Romeo gets to the tomb, Paris is protectively waiting outside of the tomb. When he sees Romeo comming, he attacks  him and gets himself killed during the combat. Romeo soon enters the tomb and finds the lifless Juliet, he kneels beside her and with one last kiss he dranks the poison. Moments later, Juliet wakes up and finds the dead Romeo. She sees the empty poison bottle and complains that he didn't even save one last drop for her. She tries to seek her own death by kissing him while hopping that the poison will rub of onto her. Without any success, she takes Romeo's dagger and stabs herself.

With the two lovers dead, both families realizes their stupidity and selfishness. They then made up to each other by promising that they will built a statue of the opposite family's child.

This ending shows how ones anger towards each other can lead to many unfortunate events and the sacrifices of many people. Just like how Romeo and Juliet's love is a sacrifice to the friendship of the two families.
 
In Act 4, Juliet went to Friar asking him to help her with all the problems she is facing including the marriage between her and Paris. Therefore Friar came up with a plan to help her elope with Romeo. He gave her a potion that will make her appear as a corps for about 42 hours. With the potion, her family will think that she is dead and will move her to the tomb. Then, Friar will send a letter to Romeo telling him of the plan and that he is to rescue Juliet from the Tomb and successfully elope with her.

 The next day, Juliet is found dead in her bed. I think this is the climax of the story, where the story has changed from what looked like the end of Romeo and Juliet's love to them having a good plan and their future once again seems bright. However, with the slightest mistake from each side, their plan could turn out to be a disaster. 
 
Mercutio and Benvolio ran into the hot tempered Tybalt. Soon, Romeo arrives and Tybalt tries to start a fight with him. However, Romeo did not wish for a fight for that Tybalt is now his cousin in law. Blinded by his hate towards Romeo, Tybalt accidentally kills Mercutio who is protective towards Romeo. After Mercutio's death, Romeo Kills Tybalt in seek of revenge for Mercutio. Romeo soon feels guilty for his actions and plants to leave the city due to his love for Juliet. The Prince went easy on Romeo, so instead of given him the death penalty, he banished him.

Juliet finds out what happened and told the nurse that she would like to meet Romeo one last time before he leaves. At this point, Romeo is so upset with himself and the decision that has been made by the prince that he offers to kill himself with a dagger. He clams that death is better than banishment.

 later that day, Juliet's father told her that she will be marrying Paris in the following week. With determination, Juliet refuses to marry Paris which caused her father to threaten her into the marriage by disowning her. Everyone in her family including the nurse thinks that is best if she marry's Paris

Without anyone else to look to, Juliet decides to go the Friar for help. I think the dramatic change gives suspense to the story that makes you wonder what will the star-cross lovers do to reunite. The sudden deaths that occurred in both families shows that their love will lead to more blood shed.  
 
During this scene in Act 2, Romeo went off on his own to find Juliet after the party, with already falling deeply in love with her. He approaches a light lit window and wonders who is inside. Juliet later appears on the balcony, and they gave their vows to each other. This scene took place at night, and I think Shakespeare used the darkness as a sign that their love is forbidden and it could lead them on to a road of many obstacles. 

The next day, Romeo goes to ask Friar to help him get married to Juliet. After talking to Friar, Romeo meet the nurse and told her to tell Juliet to meet him at St. Peters Church later that day for their marriage. That afternoon, Romeo and Juliet got married.

 I think both the nurse and Friar was opposing to this marriage. However, since both of them treats the young couple with true sincerity, they went against their conscience and let them follow their hearts. It is presented to the couple that their road is going to be bumpy and unclear. During the party, Tybalt who is Juliet's cousin has already developed harsh feeling for Romeo when he attended the party.  
 
In the introductory, Shakespeare gave away the ending by telling us the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet. He did this to show us that the ending is not important, but all the actions in between. Shakespeare presents the two families who has been rivals for many years which are the Montague's and the Capulet's. Each side only had one child, and they are Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague.

At the beginning of Act 1, Romeo was unhappy due to his one sided love for a girl called Roseline. However, his best friend Benvolio told him that he is not in love but just blinded by her beauty. That night, the Capulet's held a mask party for Juliet as an opportunity for her to meet Paris. Therefore, Benvolio and Mercutio took Romeo to his families rivals party promising him that he will meet a beautiful lady. There Romeo meet Juliet and they fell in love instantly. Shockingly, Romeo finds out that Juliet is a Capulet. 

The whole story took place in only four short days. This shows how fast young love could change and how fast ones can fall in love and be blinded by love. 

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