Sunday, June 23, 2013

Romeo and Juliet Alternate Ending



Alternate Ending

      In the churchyard that night, Paris enters Juliet's tomb and scattered flowers on Juliet's grave. The page then warns him that someone is approaching. He withdraws into the darkness. Romeo enters with Balthazar. Romeo ordered Balthazar to leave and deliver the letter Romeo had given him in the morning. From his hiding place, Paris recognizes Romeo. In a rage, Paris accosts Romeo. Romeo asks Paris to leave but Paris refuses. Romeo and Paris draw their swords and fight. Paris's page runs to get the civil watch. Romeo kills Paris. As he dies, Paris asks to be laid near Juliet in the tomb, and Romeo consents. Romeo goes to Juliet's grave. Romeo speaks to Juliet of his intention  then he kisses Juliet, drinks the poison, kisses Juliet again, and dies. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters the churchyard. He encounters Balthazar, who tells him that Romeo is in the tomb. Troubled, the friar enters the tomb, where he finds Paris’s body and then Romeo’s. As the friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes. Juliet asks where her husband is. The friar quickly replied that both Romeo and Paris are dead, and that they must leave. Juliet refuses to leave. The friar leaves without her.Juliet looks at the body of Romeo and Paris and she thought " It could have been the other way around. What if I gave Paris the real poison then Romeo would still be alive right now and we could have ran away." Then Juliet tries to kill herself but fails thinking that this isn't what Romeo wanted. Juliet left the Tomb. Juliet Leaves Verona to start anew with only friar Lawrence knowing that she is alive. The families hatred for each other grows stronger. The Capulets accuses the Montagues that some Montagues took Juliet's body for unknown 
reasons. The Montagues Accuses the Capulets that they sent Paris to bring Romeo to the tomb and kill him. The story ends with Juliet living life alone and the two families still hate each other.

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