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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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 sees Juliet before she dies?

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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Did Romeo find Juliet dead?

Romeo and Juliet's Deaths

In this scene Romeo finds Juliet's body and takes the poison he has purchased, rather than live without her. His body is then found by Friar Laurence 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 was the first person to find dead Juliet?

Scene Summary: The Nurse finds Juliet, apparently dead. Hearing the commotion the Nurse makes, Capulet and Lady Capulet enter, horrified to find their daughter in such a state. Then Friar Laurence and Paris arrive to fetch the bride for the wedding, and everyone grieves her loss.
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How old was Juliet when died?

Answer and Explanation: Romeo and Juliet were teenagers when they died in the play Romeo and Juliet, with Juliet being thirteen years old, nearly fourteen. We do not know Romeo's age; he is treated as a man and, but described as young and appears to be youthful.
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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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Who killed Romeo?

Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet is the Romeo and Juliet story told from the perspective of Friar Laurence.
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Who gave Romeo the poison?

The Apothecary says that he has just such a thing, but that selling poison in Mantua carries the death sentence. Romeo replies that the Apothecary is too poor to refuse the sale. The Apothecary finally relents and sells Romeo the poison.
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How long was Juliet dead?

The Friar offers Juliet a remedy — a sleeping potion that she is to take on Wednesday night, the evening before the wedding. 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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What was Juliet's last words before she died?

Hoping she might die by the same poison, Juliet kisses his lips, but to no avail. 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.
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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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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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What did Romeo say when Juliet died?

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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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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How old is Romeo?

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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Is Romeo Juliet real 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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Who sold Juliet the poison?

Who sold Juliet the poison? The Friar offers Juliet a remedy — a sleeping potion that she is to take on Wednesday night, the evening before the wedding. 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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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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Who did Romeo love before Juliet?

Role in the play

Before Romeo meets Juliet, he loves Rosaline, Capulet's niece and Juliet's cousin.
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Did Romeo and Juliet sleep together?

They did sleep together after their mystery marriage. Usually made clear in act 3, scene 5, when they wake up in bed together at first light. Juliet inclinations Romeo to take off some time recently her relatives discover him and slaughter him.
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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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How does Paris react to Juliet's death?

Count Paris is angry and notes that he waited so long for this and now Juliet is dead. Friar Laurence comforts the families by explaining that heaven has Juliet now and it's exactly where she should be. He directs all to pay her body peacefully in the tomb.
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What did Juliet drink to fake her death?

Sleeping draughts

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. Many believe the potion is most likely to be deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna) a plant native to Europe.
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Who put Juliet in a coma?

Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a potion that will put her into a deathlike coma for "two and forty hours".
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