Who is the first to find Juliet's body?

Romeo and Juliet's Deaths
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'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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Who discovered Juliet's body?

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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Who is the first to find Juliet body and think she dead?

Q: Who is the first to find Juliet's body and think that she's dead in Scene 5? A: The Nurse is the first one to find Juliet's body.
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Who was the first person to find Juliet?

Early the next morning, the Capulet house is aflutter with preparations for the wedding. Capulet sends the Nurse to go wake Juliet. She finds Juliet dead and begins to wail, soon joined by both Lady Capulet and Capulet.
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Who discovered Juliet's body act 4?

Juliet is found 'dead' (Act 4 Scene 4)

The Nurse discovers Juliet 's 'body' dead' when she goes to wake her for her marriage Paris. Friar Laurence is called, counsels the family to accept their grief, and arranges for Juliet to be 'buried' immediately.
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When did the nurse find Juliet?

The Nurse finds Juliet in the deathlike trance caused by the Friar's potion and announces Juliet's death.
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Where is Juliet's body taken?

The potion will render Juliet unconscious, and she will appear to be dead for 42 hours, during which time her body will rest in the family tomb.
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Who saw Juliet dead?

Approaching Juliet, Romeo grieves for her death and the luster of her still-lively beauty. He drinks the poison and dies. Friar Lawrence arrives and witnesses the scene as Juliet wakes, offering to hide her away among a convent of nuns.
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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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Was Juliet a 13 year old?

In Shakespeare's original story, Romeo is given the age of 16 years and Juliet is given the age of 13 years. The Montague and Capulet families originated in the Divine Comedy by the Italian author Dante Aligheri, rather than in Shakespeare.
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Who visits Juliet's grave first?

Summary: A mourning Paris visits Juliet's tomb. Romeo arrives, and the two begin a duel outside the vault, which ends in Paris's death. When Romeo enters the tomb, he sees Juliet in a corpse-like state and launches into a long, sad speech, kisses her, and drinks his poison.
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Who found Juliet in death like state?

Act 4, Scene 5. The Nurse discovers Juliet's corpse-like body and shares the news with her parents. Summary: The Nurse finds Juliet, apparently dead.
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Who told Juliet to fake her death?

Summary and Analysis Act IV: Scene 1. The plan Friar Laurence concocts to place Juliet in a deathlike state so that she may emerge from the tomb to be reunited with her husband appears both farfetched and morbidly weird.
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Why do they touch Juliet's breast?

It's believed the courtyard and house belonged to the fictional Capulet family made famous by the play (or more likely the movie), Romeo and Juliet. According to local myth, caressing Juliet's breast brings the toucher good fortune in love.
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When was Juliet found dead?

Act 5, scene 3.
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Why did Juliet stab herself?

Juliet had killed herself because she saw Romeo's dead body. Romeo had killed himself because he had heard that Juliet had died. Also, the letter he was supposed to receive from the friar had come too late.
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Who stops Juliet from killing herself?

After Paris leaves, she threatens suicide if Friar Lawrence cannot save her from marrying Paris. Friar Lawrence gives her a potion that will make her appear as if dead the morning of the wedding. He assures her that when she awakes in the vault, Romeo will be there to take her away.
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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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How does Juliet end up killing herself?

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And because of his death, when Juliet wakes up from her sleep in the tomb, she stabs herself with Romeo knife and kills herself. This could of easily been prevented if Romeo would of not bought the poison from the Apothecary.
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Did Juliet get buried?

It is an Italian family tomb, filled with the remains of the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet lie buried together inside the Capulet monument, but their names are not inscribed on its walls.
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What does Romeo say when Juliet dies?

Balthasar replies that nothing can be ill, then, for Juliet is well: she is in heaven, found dead that morning at her home. Thunderstruck, Romeo cries out, “Then I defy you, stars” (5.1. 24).
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Where was Juliet buried when she faked her death?

Juliet executes Friar Laurence's plan to fake her death. Afterward, her family buries her in the tomb as Friar Laurence planned.
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Who put flowers on Juliet's grave?

Paris arrives at the Capulet tomb to lay flowers in Juliet's memory. His page warns him that someone is approaching, and they hide in the bushes outside the tomb. Romeo appears with Balthasar and breaks into the tomb on the pretext of seeing Juliet one last time.
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Who gave Juliet the poison?

Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that will make her appear dead so she does not have to marry again. He sends Romeo a note to explain the plan and Juliet takes the potion. Her body is moved to the family tomb. Romeo does not receive the note about the potion from Friar Laurence and thinks Juliet is really dead.
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