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Lady Capulet enters, misinterprets Juliet’s tears as grief for Tybalt, and announces the marriage to Paris. Juliet refuses. Capulet explodes in fury, calling her “baggage,” “green-sickness carrion,” and threatening to disown her if she disobeys. The Nurse, the one adult Juliet trusted, betrays her with pragmatic advice: marry Paris, since Romeo is banished and “a gentleman of noble parentage.”

Romeo, in a white-hot rage, then kills Tybalt. In less than a hundred lines, Romeo has gone from a newlywed who refuses to fight to a kinslayer. The Prince arrives, and Benvolio’s truthful (if slightly favorable to Romeo) account leads to a compromise: Romeo is banished, not executed. act 3 romeo and juliet

This curse is the thematic heart of Act 3. Mercutio—neither a Montague nor a Capulet by blood, but a friend to all and a prince of wit—dies because of the feud. His curse ensures that no one will win. Lady Capulet enters, misinterprets Juliet’s tears as grief