lays him. Paris asks that Romeo lay his body beside that of Juliet, and Romeo says he will. Upon spying the face of the slain man, Romeo discovers that it is Mercutio’s kinsman, the County Paris. He obliges the dead man andlays him in the tomb. When in the tomb, Romeo looks at Juliet and says, “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty…That unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?” (ll.92-105). Here Romeo comments that Death, personified, has not yet taken away Juliet’s beauty. He then goes on to state that Death is keeping Juliet as its wife. At the end of his monologue, Romeo drinks the poison and dies. The Friar arrives upon the scene a bit to late, but is there to greet Juliet when she awakens. The sight is too horrible for him, and he leaves Juliet alone in the tomb. Distraught that there is no more poison left, Juliet stabs herself. At the end of the play, we also learn of the sudden death of Lady Montague, after Romeo’s banishment. Throughout his play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare exemplified the death motif in many ways. He used actual deaths, personification of Death, and employed the use of foresight to allude to death and disaster. In doing so in this eloquent manner, his play runs smoothly, and links to other parts very well, into an ironic and twisted tragedy....
