The final scene includes all of the main characters, it's a very tense scene but also very meaningful.

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The final scene includes all of the main characters, it's a very tense scene but also very meaningful. We are able to see a stronger side of the two main characters, Romeo showing his love for Juliet, not like the juvenile love he had for Rosaline. At the beginning of the play Romeo pines for Rosaline, he uses many oxymorons and really does not make much sense at all, I think the audience can easily sense his immaturity by this language. When Romeo first sees Juliet his interpretations of love are very different from that of those for Rosaline, his language suddenly matures which I think helps it to become more believable that this is true love. Romeos character has had to grow considerably within a short space of time, in the last scene when he reaches the graveyard he calls Paris a "youth" and "boy" showing that he feels he is older than Paris, he is urging Paris to leave the graveyard as he does not want to kill again another sign that perhaps he has matured. "Put not another sin upon my head" Act 5 Scene III When Romeo finds out about the death of his Juliet he is very angry and distraught. He cries out "Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!" Act 5 Scene I He is crying out to fate, Romeo and Juliet are destined to be apart; Juliet has died (so
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Romeo thinks) so he will join her so that they can be together albeit in death. Romeo seams to act before thinking, if he had not killed Tybalt then he would not have been banished from Verona and he and Juliet could have been together, had he have waited a day before visiting Juliet's grave he would have found out that she wasn't actually dead, he even states that Juliet's lips and cheeks are still crimson yet he fails to realise that she is still alive "Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks," Act 5 Scene III Ironically ...

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