Act V Summary

Gapfill exercise

Enter your answers in the gaps. When you have entered all the answers, click on the Check button. Make sure you spell everything correctly. Some words are listed more than once; that means they are used more than once. All words are used. Hint: you can highlight a word and drag and drop it into the appropriate box.

   alive      apothecary      Balthasar      beauty      Capulet      dagger      death      Death      dies      dramatic      father      Friar      Friar John      grief      grief      Juliet      Juliet      Juliet      kiss      kisses      Lady Montague      letter      lips      lips      Montague      Paris      Paris      Paris      Paris      plague      poison      poison      Prince      relatives      ring      Romeo      Romeo      stabs      suicide      Tybalt      vial      winking      woe   

In Mantua, Romeo's servant, , arrives with the news of Juliet's . was unable to deliver Friar Laurence's letter that said that was sleeping and waiting his arrival at the Capulets' tomb. Romeo is distraught from his servant's news, and he illegally buys from a destitute . He plans to commit when he gets to Juliet's tomb. He rides hastily to Verona. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence learns that the letter didn't reach Romeo because the messenger was detained by a quarantine.

At the Capulets' tomb, is placing flowers and scented water at Juliet's grave. Romeo gives his servant a to deliver to his and makes the servant promise not to interrupt him. He claims that he is going into the tomb in order to get a from Juliet. The servant suspects Romeo's intention and remains as a witness. As Romeo tries to open the tomb, recognizes him as the one who killed . He believes that the from this murder is what killed Juliet. The two begin to fight, and is mortally wounded. He requests that Romeo lay him beside .

Inside the tomb, Romeo is amazed by Juliet's even in death. He comments that her and cheeks are crimson and that has not advanced upon her. This creates irony because the audience knows that Juliet is and about to wake up. Without hesitation, Romeo Juliet, drinks the , and at her side. A moment later, the arrives and discovers the dead bodies of Romeo and . Juliet then wakens from her death-like sleep and looks for Romeo. Once she realizes is dead, she decides to stay in the tomb. Juliet tries to drink poison from Romeo's . Finding it empty, she tries to some poison from his . Hearing the night watchman approach, Juliet herself with Romeo's .

The night watchman and the arrive with the Capulets and Lord . We discover that has died of at Romeo's banishment. The Friar tells the events of the past week and offers his life in atonement. The Prince instead blames Montague and for their longstanding feud. The Prince also blames himself for "" at the families' discords. For his leniency, the Prince lost two .

The two families are finally reconciled as the Prince ends the play by saying, "For never was a story of more / Than this of and her ."