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
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As the dawn brings their wedding-night to a close, Juliet claims that it's still dark, so Romeo doesn't have to leave her just yet. Romeo knows she's indulging in wishful thinking, but he's willing to play along with it. He says that if Juliet will have it so, it's ok if he is captured and dies: " I have more care to stay than will to go: / Come, death, and welcome! 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!" (