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Juliet is waiting for Romeo. They just got married and they had planned to spend their first night together as a married couple. Juliet talks to herself and wishes that the night would hurry up and come. She poetically speaks of how bright Romeo is (his presence can turn the night whiter than the snow on a raven’s back). She proves how in love she is with him through her speech.
Juliet is interrupted by the bringer of bad news, the Nurse. She immediately tells Juliet that “he’s dead!” Juliet is immediately grief stricken, thinking it is her Romeo who has died. Juliet thinks that maybe he killed himself; perhaps, their parents’ feud forced him to end himself since he knew it would bring problems to their relationship. She swears her body must return to dust so that she can join Romeo in his death bed. In other words, she thinks she should kill herself.
The Nurse, finally, interjects and informs Juliet that it is Tybalt who died at the hands of Romeo. She is angered at first at how Romeo’s “serpent heart” was hidden by his “flowering face.” She can’t believe Romeo was such an “honorable villain.” The Nurse remarks that men cannot be trusted and she says that shame came to Romeo.
Juliet, then, has a change of heart. Suddenly, she defends her husband’s actions. She becomes emotionally distraught by both the death of her cousin and the banishment of her beloved Romeo.
The Nurse asks if Juliet wants to go see and mourn Tybalt with her family. She remarks that even when her family’s tears are dry, she will still be crying over Romeo. Instead, she will go to her wedding bed and kill herself over this tremendous grief. The Nurse interjects and says that she will fetch Romeo so that they can share one passionate night together before he is banished.
ROMEO AND JULIET -- ACT III, 2
BROWSE CONTENTS
by William Shakespeare
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