After calculating the time when Juliet will wake up, I set out for the Capulet tomb. As I was walking through the graveyard, I ran into someone, along with running my feet into many gravestones. After realizing it was Balthasar, I then saw a light coming from, what looked like, the Capulet tomb. Balthasar then told me Romeo had been there for a full hour hour. Balthasar would not come with me inside the tomb because Romeo thought he had already left and so I went in alone. I suddenly felt very scared. As I walked to the Capulet tomb, I got a hunch that something bad was happening. I felt like something was wrong because Romeo was there before Juliet was supposed to wake up and then Balthasar told me that he had a dream only a few minutes ago that Romeo fought and killed someone in front of the tomb. As I moved closer to the tomb, I saw there was blood all over the entrance to the tomb and bloody swords rested under the entrance. I then saw Romeo, pale and dead, and near him, Paris laid bloody and slain. I realized that Romeo had never received my letter and had killed himself because he thought Juliet had truly died.
What have I done?! I created this sleeping potion to bring Juliet out of the eyes and watch of the Capulets so that she can run away to Mantua with Romeo. Seeing Romeo dead, made me realize that I have not only pushed this situation too far and gotten too involved, but I have blown it so out of proportion that I felt like it is one hundred percent my fault that these three are dead. I should not have created such a complex plan unless I was positive nothing would go wrong because I agreed to help Romeo and Juliet in hope that their "love" for each other would result in peace between the feuding families, not death by something as simple as miscommunication of a plan.
Then Juliet woke up and immediately asked, "O comfortable Friar! Where is my lord?" (5.3.162). I then had to tell her that her husband lay dead next to her, but when I asked her to come with me, she refused to leave Romeo. At that time, I thought she was just going to spend time with Romeo's corpse and say her final good-byes to her true husband, but I cannot believe how wrong I was.
As I was leaving the graveyard, a watchman grabbed me and took my pickax and shovel. He dragged me back to the chief watchman and would not let me go until the Prince arrived. By this time I was crying and trembling because Romeo, Juliet, and Paris had all died in the Capulet tomb. I then became scared that, because I was in the graveyard during the time of this string of deaths, I will be accused of killing them. Then the prince arrived along with attendants, Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet, shortly followed by Lord Montague to evaluate the scene. After a quick, visual observation, I explained everything that had secretly occurred over the past couple of days. I told them how I had secretly married them, how Tybalt's untimely death corrupted this secret marriage because of Romeo's exile, and I explained the plan I devised to get them together away from their feuding families. After this everything fell into a peaceful place, Lord Montague and Lord Capulet joined their hands and declared peace between their families. At that point, I felt so guilty for blowing this situation so out of proportion to result in three deaths, but my goal and idea behind this whole plan has been achieved: peace between the Montagues and the Capulets. I am not saying that the peace that I helped achieve cancels out for the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris, but I do feel a tiny sense of accomplishment because everything is as it should be: the Montagues and Capulets are now at peace for the first time in hundreds of years and Romeo and Juliet are together forever. Earlier, I felt that the death of these children was entirely my fault, but I realized that it was not completely my fault. After Juliet realized that Romeo had committed suicide because he thought she had died, Juliet decided to kill herself to be with Romeo forever. Before this tragedy unfolded, I truly thought that Romeo and Juliet did not understand love at all, but after everything progressed, I could feel their love growing. Now they will be free to be together in love forever in Heaven with the Lord our God.
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