Death affrancherà Romeo and Juliet from the bondage of lies that he has betrayed their aspiration to join in life, in the bitter revenge of the kingdom of silence. For Romeo, desperate and living on the sarcophagus, Juliet is equated with death itself: the beauty of her, she says, "not even death has been able to resist."
"Even in the final Juliet favors eros", I suggest, "finds its identity in a gesture that is the vision of physical love:" O happy dagger! This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die, she sighs, as he sinks into the 'sheath' of her belly. "
accepted, we the public, the last word spoken by the lovers, not love, but die.
Goes off every gleam of light, between stage and audience.
The music is silent now, as we leave the decision by the two lovers die for all of us remains the only possible one.
Curtain.
text extracted from:
"About this Romeo and Juliet" by Paola Calvetti
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