Title: Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Themes: The Marriage of Love and Death
Headings: The Marriage of Love and Death
The Marriage of Love and Death
Content: Juliet wills it so" (3.5.23-24). Later in the same scene, after Juliet has severely disappointed her mother by saying that she will not marry Paris, Capulet arrives, expecting to find his daughter joyful at the news that she is to marry Paris. Instead, he finds Juliet in tears, and asks his wife if she has told Juliet the happy news, but his wife replies bitterly, "Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. / I would the fool were married to her grave!" ( 3.5.139-140). A little later, after Capulet has stormed out, Juliet pleads with her mother to help her avoid the marriage to Paris: " O, sweet my mother, cast me not away! / Delay this marriage for a month, a week / Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies" (3.5.198-201) . [ Scene Summary ]
Before Friar Laurence tells Juliet of his plan to have her take a sleeping potion, he asks if she has courage to undergo something like death.