Why did Juliet take her life
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when Juliet found her love of life , Romeo dead beside her coffin in which she wasn't dead but unconscious ,she realized that she was already lifeless without Romeo . Finding, no point to continue her life , she stabbed herself and took her life
When does Juliet die in Romeo and Juliet?
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DAVID MORRISON eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Juliet dies as the result of a tragic misunderstanding, as indeed does her beloved Romeo. She is so desperate to get out of her arranged marriage to Paris that she takes a special potion—given to her by Friar Laurence—to put her to sleep and make her family think she is dead. The plan initially seems to work, and Juliet's grief-stricken parents place their daughter's "body" in the Capulet mausoleum.
Tragically, however, it's not just Juliet's family who thinks that she's dead, but Romeo too. When he sees what he believes to be his late lover's corpse, lying there still and silent in the mausoleum, he is so overcome with sorrow that he kills himself by taking poison. When Juliet wakes from her slumbers, she sees Romeo lying dead. Now it's her turn to be overcome with grief, and she stabs herself to death with Romeo's knife:
Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die. (act V, scene iii)
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ALEC CRANFORD eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Juliet dies by her own hand after awaking from the sleeping potion Friar Laurence gave her. When Juliet wakes up in her family mausoleum (her family, believing her dead, had placed her body there), she discovers Romeo's dead body next to her. He believed she was actually dead and took poison, collapsing dead by her side. Despite the Friar's entreaties, Juliet grabs Romeo's dagger and thrusts it into her heart. She falls dead, her body draped over Romeo's. This act is the culmination of a series of unfortunate events that demonstrate that the two lovers really are, as the chorus says at the beginning of the play, "star-cross'd." Their deaths do convince the two families, the Montagues and Capulets, that their feud has gone too far. In the presence of the corpses of their children, Montague and Capulet vow to end their long dispute.