Group+A+Act+Five

Group A Act Five

Personality Traits - Lady Capulet. ﻿In Act 5:3 Lady Capulet witnessed her daughter dead, for the second time. She also sees Romeo and Paris slayed along with her beloved daughter Juliet. She must have just been overwhelmed with the though of death. She says on page 736 "O me, this sight of death is as a bell That warns me old age to a sepulcher." She has seen death too many times and can't take it anymore. Lady Capulet's personality in Act 5 is just plain depression. -Meredith Holmes.

Reacuring themes-Romeo. Through out the play Romeo talks of suicide more than once. Everytime something in Romeos life changes, or is not how he wants, he plays with the idea of killing himself. We see this first in Act 1, when Rosaline rejects him. We see it again after he marries Juliet, in Act 3, when he is so happy he didnt care if he died. Finally though, in act 5 scene 3, after being told that Juliet had died, he rushed to the apothecary and bought poison, and than on page 733, he, finally, kills himself. Shakespeare seemed to be hinting at it the whole time, so Romeo killing himself wasnt to much of a shock at the end. ~Anna Bernieri

Personality Traits - Romeo In Act 5 of Shakespeare's //Romeo and Juliet,// we are able to see some of Romeo Montegue's personality traits through his actions in 5:1. On page 727, Romeo hears news from his servant that Juliet is dead. Upon hearing this dreadful news about his wife, Romeo doesn't think twice before going to the nearest apothecary and buying a fatal poison, already planning on killing himself. He doesn't even know what has really happened to Juliet, yet he doesnt care and thinks the only way to escape is to drink the poison and die. Romeo also shows his personality when he visits Juliet's grave in 5:3, when he carelessly threatens his servant and murders Paris without a second thought. Obviously Romeo has gone off the deep-end and is unaware of what he is doing and the damage he is causing to the people around him. This example shows Romeo's personality because only someone like Romeo would let his wife's death drive him crazy like that. ~Rebecca Lopez

Key Choices: In Scene 5 act 3 Romeo makes the obviously important decision to drink the poison, and kill himself.("O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." pg 733) Romeo does this thinking that it will bring him to a place where he and Juliet can be together forever. This is such an important choice because if he had decided not to drink the poison, or had decided to drink it a little later, Juliet would have woken up and the two could have lived happily ever after, or at least could have lived together at all. Since Romeo drank the poison though, he died before Juliet could wake up from her "sleep". This in turn caused Juliet to kill herself, not wanting to live without Romeo as Romeo had killed himself, not wanted to live without Juliet. ~Abby Cotter

Personality Traits - Paris: During Act 5 Scene 3 Paris goes to Juliet's grave to place flowers in Juliet's memory. He says to her: "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew: O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones! Which with sweet water nightly I will dew; <span style="color: #f5388d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans: <span style="color: #f5388d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The obsequies that I for thee will keep, <span style="color: #f5388d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep." <span style="color: #f5388d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Paris shows compasion and love towards Juliet and also greatly misses her, in response, weeps over her. This is not what Juliet thought of him as. Before in the play he came across as a demanding and stern man, one to not argue with. He also appeared to be self conceited. His personality is truely revealed during his visit to Juliet's grave. Paris is not just a man who wished to marry Juliet, but a kind gentleman with a loving heart. <span style="color: #f5388d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Kiersten DePanfilis

<span style="color: #2226c3; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Romeo <span style="color: #2226c3; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In 5:3, on page 731, Romeo and Paris fight. Romeo ends up killing Paris. After killing Paris, Romeo says, "Let me pursue this face." He didnt even know who he was fighting with!! He finds out it was Paris, and at the same time, we find out Paris is Mercutio's kinsman. Romeo has killed both Mercutio and Paris, who are related! I think Shakespeare did this on purpose. He wanted to add another tragedy to this already tragic play by having Romeo kill his best friend and his best friend's kinsman. <span style="color: #2226c3; font-family: Georgia,serif;">~Nicole Rabe

In 5:3, as Romeo see's Juliet lying in the tomb, dead, he realizes that he can never be with her again, but he will not stand to keep thinking that. He feels that if he dies with her, they will be together in spirit. Therefore, he goes to the apothecary to get drugs that will kill him. I quote from 5:3: Romeo: //Here's to my love! [He drinks] O true apothecary,// // Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. // Romeo believes that by killing himself for Juliet, he has solved the problem of them never being able to be with each other. For so he thinks... ~Aryana Nakhai
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