What happens after Juliet kills herself?

In this scene Romeo
Romeo
Romeo is the only son of Lord and Lady Montague. He falls in love with Juliet. Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. She falls in love with Romeo.
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finds Juliet
Juliet
Noun. Capulet (plural Capulets) (figuratively) A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague. quotations ▼
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's body and takes the poison he has purchased, rather than live without her. His body is then found by Friar Laurence
Friar Laurence
Friar Laurence is a friar who plays the part of a wise adviser to Romeo and Juliet, along with aiding in major plot developments. Alone, he foreshadows the later, tragic events of the play with his soliloquy about plants and their similarities to humans.
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who realises what has happened and is there when Juliet wakes up. Rather than stay with her, the Friar leaves the tomb and Juliet is left alone.
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Where is Juliet put after her death?

Juliet will be laid to rest in the Capulet tomb, and the friar will send word to Romeo in Mantua to help him retrieve her when she wakes up.
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What happens when Juliet stabs herself?

Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself (5.3. 171). She dies upon Romeo's body. Chaos reigns in the churchyard, where Paris's page has brought the watch.
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How does Romeo react to Juliet's death?

Romeo is distraught because he regards banishment as a form of living death when he cannot be with Juliet. The Friar tries to reason with Romeo, but young Romeo is inconsolable — "with his own tears made drunk." The Nurse arrives and tells Romeo of Juliet's grief.
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What does Paris say about Juliet's death?

He tells Count Paris of her death and Count Paris responds saying: Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled, Count Paris believed that Juliet would be happy with him and now instead she was tricked and taken by death.
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How does nurse react to Juliet's death?

The Nurse enters Juliet's room and discovers her seemingly lifeless body on the bed. The Nurse tries to wake her, but believing her to be dead, cries out to the family in desperation. The Capulets, Friar Laurence, and Paris enter the room in response to the Nurse's cries.
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Why is Paris at Juliet's grave?

In Romeo and Juliet, Paris is at Juliet's tomb because he is mourning her and has come to place flowers at her grave. Paris says he is there to weep over the loss of Juliet and that ''The obsequies that I for thee will keep/Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
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Why did Juliet take her own life?

In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar's plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo's corpse beside her and kills herself. The grieving family agree to end their feud.
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What does Romeo say before he kills himself?

Here's to my love. O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
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What is the last thing Romeo does before he dies?

Romeo is dazzled by Juliet's beauty even in death. Without hesitation, he kisses her, drinks the poison, and dies at her side.
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What mental illness does Juliet have?

In Shakespeare's tragedies, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a common mental illness throughout. In Romeo and Juliet, they both display symptoms of BPD.
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Did the nurse betray Juliet?

The rift between the Nurse and Juliet foreshadows the final split in their relationship which occurs in Act III, Scene 5 when the Nurse betrays Juliet by advising her to forget Romeo and marry Paris.
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Why did Juliet go into a coma?

In the final act of Romeo and Juliet, our tragic heroine takes a potion to fake her own death and place her into a catatonic state.
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Where did they put Juliet's body?

Juliet's tomb is a stone sarcophagus, empty and without a lid. It is inside the underground crypt of the church of San Francesco al Corso, an old Franciscan monastery in Verona.
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What was Juliet lying on when she died?

What was Juliet lying on when she died? In the Romeo and Juliet death scene, Juliet is lying in the tomb, under the influence of a sleeping potion that makes it appear that she has died. Romeo finds her in the tomb.
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Who was the last person to see Juliet alive?

The poisoned Romeo, aroused by Juliet's kiss, opens his eyes to find that she is alive, but succumbs to the poison soon thereafter. Thus, Romeo becomes the last to see Juliet alive, just moments before his own tragic end.
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What does Romeo and Juliet's death symbolize?

At the play's end, the love they share and the violence that separates them become one and the same. Though they shall be buried together, laying forever in each other's arms, the lovers will also remain forever apart, separated by death.
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Who finds Juliet dead?

Capulet sends the Nurse to go wake Juliet. She finds Juliet dead and begins to wail, soon joined by both Lady Capulet and Capulet. Paris arrives with Friar Lawrence and a group of musicians for the wedding.
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Who told Romeo that Juliet was dead?

Balthasar, a friend of Romeo's, brings him news that Juliet is dead and lies in the Capulet tomb.
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Who took care of Juliet since birth?

The Nurse loves Juliet like a daughter. She has brought her up and breast-fed her when she was a child. Her own daughter, Susan, died and Juliet then became her source of attention and maternal care.
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Why did Juliet stab herself with a dagger?

Why did Juliet stab herself with a dagger? After she awakens from her coma, Juliet discovers that Romeo has drunk poison. She looks for a way to kill herself so she can join him in eternity. She eventually finds Romeo's dagger and stabs herself with it.
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Is Romeo and Juliet Based on a true story?

The story is, indeed, based on the life of two real lovers who lived and died for each other in Verona, Italy in 1303. Shakespeare is known to have discovered this tragic love story in Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem entitled “The Tragical History of Romeo and Juliet”.
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How does Romeo feel after killing Paris?

After Paris is dead, Romeo realizes who Paris is and describes them both as the victims of fate: "One writ with me in sour misfortune's book." Paris is a noble suitor and defends Juliet's grave with his life. His death, like Mercutio's, is tragic in that he never knew the love shared by Romeo and Juliet.
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Why does Romeo call for a lightning before death?

Romeo speaks of a "lightning before death," and this phrase, for me, became the metaphor for the play. Lightning is referred to many times in the text—lightning that spectacularly lights up the sky and is then gone. Like lightning, everything moves with enormous, and unpredictable, velocity. Events happen.
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Why does Juliet kiss Romeo in the tomb?

Why does Juliet kiss Romeo in the tomb? She thinks that Romeo has poison on his lips and the kiss will kill her. Why do Capulet and Montague stop their feud at the end of the play? They realize that their hatred has destroyed their own children.
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