Although the love between the two youths is clearly very strong in this scene I feel that the outcome is already predetermined as the gap between their families is so vast and the hatred for one another’s families has been building up for so long that ill-fated and tragic actions are sure to happen. We as the audience know this is not going to be a simple romantic relationship as there are many complications which will take an important role.
Act Five Scene Three, the final scene, is set in the churchyard where the mausoleum of the Capulet family is found. Here, Paris is mourning the loss of Juliet, "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew, O woe, thy canopy is dust and stones."
Paris departs, and now Romeo (with Balthasar) enters, carrying torches and equipment (mattocks and a wrenching iron) with which to prise open Juliet's tomb. He instructs his servant to deliver a letter to his father "early in the morning" and to not disturb him, no matter what he hears.
Romeo pretends that he wishes to open the tomb to gaze once more upon his beloved Juliet and to also take a ring from Juliet's finger. He threatens Balthasar with a painful death, should he not leave at once. Nonetheless, the suspicious servant hides, watching events unfold. He sits alone contemplating Romeo’s actions "For all this same, I'll hide me here about: His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt" This gives an insight into what is about to happen and shows that what Romeo has just told Balthasar about what he was going to do is not necessarily true.
Paris sees Romeo opening Juliet's tomb. From his hiding place, Paris recognises Romeo as the man who murdered , and thus as the man who indirectly murdered Juliet, since it is her grief for her cousin that is supposed to have killed her. As Romeo has been exiled from the city on penalty of death, Paris thinks that Romeo must hate the Capulets so much that he has returned to the tomb to do some dishonour to the corpse of either Tybalt or Juliet. In a rage, Paris accosts Romeo. Romeo pleads with him to leave, but Paris refuses. They draw their swords and fight. Paris's page runs off to get the civil watch. Romeo kills Paris. As he dies, Paris asks to be laid near Juliet in the tomb and Romeo consents. Seeking mercy, Paris asks that he be placed next to body of Juliet before dying: "Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet." Romeo will grant his wife's would be husband this last request, saying, "In faith, I will.”
Romeo descends into the tomb carrying Paris' body. He finds Juliet lying peacefully, and wonders how she can still look so beautiful-as if she were not dead at all. Romeo speaks to Juliet of his intention to spend an eternity with her, describing himself as shaking "the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh." He kisses Juliet, drinks the poison, kisses Juliet again, and dies.
Just then, enters the churchyard. He encounters Balthasar, who tells him that Romeo is in the tomb. Balthasar says that he fell asleep and dreamed that Romeo fought with and killed someone. Troubled, the friar enters the tomb, where he finds Paris' body and then Romeo's. As the friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes.
Juliet asks the friar where her husband is. Hearing a noise that he believes is the coming of the watch, the friar quickly replies that both Romeo and Paris are dead, and that she must leave with him. Juliet refuses to leave, and the friar, fearful that the watch is imminent, exits without her. Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises from the empty vial that he has drunk poison. 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. She dies upon Romeo's body. Their parallel consumption of mysterious potions lends their deaths a peaceful symmetry, which is broken by Juliet's dramatic dagger stroke. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare has held up the possibility of suicide as an inherent aspect of intense love. Passion cannot be stifled, and when combined with the vigour of youth, it expresses itself through the most convenient outlet. Romeo and Juliet long to live for love or die for it. Shakespeare considers this suicidal impulse not as something separate from love, but rather as an element as much a part of it as the romantic euphoria of Act two.
Chaos reigns in the churchyard, where Paris' page has brought the watch. The watchmen discover bloodstains near the tomb; they hold Balthasar and Friar Laurence, who they discovered loitering nearby. The and the Capulets enter. Through the arrival of the Prince, the law imposes itself, seeking to restore the peace in the name of social order and government. Montague arrives, rehashing family tension, declaring that has died of grief for Romeo's exile. This is ironic as Romeo insisted that the letter should not be sent to his parents tonight but it should be delivered by Balthasar in the morning. If the letter had been delivered that night then his mother would have survived. None of these forces are able to exert any influence on the young lovers. We have seen Romeo and Juliet time and again attempt to reconfigure the world through language so that their love might have a place to exist peacefully. Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are discovered in the tomb. The Prince shows Montague his son's body. Upon the Prince's request, Friar Laurence succinctly tells the story of Romeo and Juliet's secret marriage and its consequences. Balthasar gives the Prince the letter Romeo had previously written to his father. The Prince says that it confirms the friar's story. He scolds the Capulets and Montagues, calling the tragedy a consequence of their feud and reminding them that he himself has lost two close kinsmen: and Paris. Capulet and Montague clasp hands and agree to put their vendetta behind them. Montague says that he will build a golden statue of Juliet, and Capulet insists that he will raise Romeo's likeness in gold beside hers. The Prince takes the group away to discuss these events, pronouncing that there has never been "a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
We sense the grand irony that in death Romeo and Juliet have created the world that would have allowed their love to live. That irony does exist, and it is tragic. But because of the power and beauty of their love, it is hard to see Romeo and Juliet's death as a simple tragedy. Romeo and Juliet's deaths are tragic, but this tragedy was fated: by the stars, by the violent world in which they live, by the play, and by their very natures. We, as an audience, want this death, this tragedy. At the play's end, we do not feel sad for the loss of life as much as we feel wrenched by the incredible act of love that Romeo and Juliet have committed as monuments to each other and their love. Romeo and Juliet have been immortalised as the epitome of true love not because their tragic deaths bury their parents' strife, but rather because they are willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for their love.
