Soon after Paris and his page had arrived, Romeo arrives an enters the tomb. This Increases the level of tension because the audience already know that Paris is already in the tomb. Romeo describes the tomb as "thou womb of death" This is an effective use of personification. It gives the impression that the tomb is a horrible place to be. The audience can see how depressed Romeo is. He also says,
"Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open”
This is another good use of personification. He talks as if death was hungry and has taken his lover to feed upon, as if it was a big hungry monster. He is saying that death needs to give him his lover back. All this is effective and it lets the audience know that Romeo is angry and upset.
Paris Comes out of his hiding place and says
"This is that banished haughty Montague, That murdered my loves cousin"
Paris is obviously angry that Romeo had killed Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt. This creates unease. "O be gone" Romeo replies, asking Paris to leave, but Paris refuses to leave and the two begin to fight in the tomb as Paris’s page watches. It results in Romeo killing Paris and this creates further tension because the audience already know that Romeo has killed Tybalt and he is getting himself into more trouble.
We see Romeo standing alone, looking at Juliet. The audience feels sympathy towards Romeo as they see how he has now lost everything and is becoming even more depressed. He talks to Juliet while she is sleeping, But Romeo thinking she is dead says
"Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath. Hath no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou am not conquered; beauties ensign yet. Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks and deaths pale flag is not advanced there"
Romeo is saying that even though Juliet is dead she is still beautiful and not even death can take that away from her. This is a great example of dramatic irony as the audience know that Juliet is only asleep and that she is still alive. Romeo feels he has nothing left to live for and takes out his poison and swallows it. "Thy drugs are quick, thus with a kiss i die." This has a massive effect on the audience of shock and tension because we know that if he just waited a little longer he would have been reunited with Juliet. The audience feels great tension and sympathy as Juliet awakes as they know that Romeo is dead. Friar Lawrence enters as she awakes and he first see's the disastrous results of Juliet’s plan. Romeo! O Pale! Who else! Paris to!?" He takes a look at Juliet. "The Lady Stirs." She is horrified as she see's the dead Romeo and sees how her plan has horribly back fired. There is more tension here as we watch how Juliet reacts to all. She is faced with a very difficult situation the tomb. "Were i my Romeo?" she says as she then looks down onto Romeos limp body. She knows what has happened and ifs devastated. Friar Lawence makes a quick exit, not wanting to be found there. Juliet now also feels she has nothing else to live for.
"I kiss thy lips; haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative"
Juliet now also is thinking of taking her own life. Romeo was the love of her life and now he had taken his own life because of her. She is extremely depressed at this point and kisses his lips hoping for them to poison her also. She then realises "Thy lips are warm" she knows that Romeo has only just taken his own life and how close she was to be waking up with him alive. "This is my sheath; there fest, and let me die” She then stabs herself, not being able to live without Romeo.
A watch enters with the age of Paris. They have arrived only just after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. “Juliet bleeds, warm and newly dead" the first watch announces. The two panic and the first watch orders Paris' page to go and tell the Capulets and Montagues about the news of their children. When the to families arrive Friar Lawence is put in a very difficult situation because he was the one and only witness and if the families don't believe his story he could be blamed for that nights events so this creates high tension while the audience await the reaction of the families. The two families believe him though so tension is lifted.
Juliet’s parents are devastated "Oh heavens! O wife look how our daughter bleeds" they cry out. They are shocked of the news of their daughter’s death. Then Montague’s arrive. “Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath." saying that the shock of his son’s sudden death has now also killed his wife. This is devastating end to the scene. The two families, from then on, work around their differences and reconcile.
This scene shows allot of tension and also allot o dramatic irony. Such as how, the two families has feuded all there lives and it takes the death of the children to make them see they should put aside there differences after all the damage they had already caused. Almost through the entire scene the is allot of tension as we see how everything that happens is actually down timing. Shakespeare has written this scene very well as it draws in allot of people because of there things.