Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet Epilogue

Epilogue
The sky was looming with dark clouds. An eerie and gloomy silence had taken hold of the city. The only noise you could hear was the occasional screech of a vulture. Not a single light shone out on the roads. The once bustling streets of Verona were now desolate and plunged in misery. A passer-by would have thought that the city was hit by a fatal malady.
Suddenly a man in black clothes hurried towards the St. Peter’s church. The church was packed with people, all of them wearing black clothes. Despite the many people, the same air of anguish hung around the church. The same eerie silence greeted everyone, only to be broken by a sob from someone, followed by a tear rolling down their cheek. In front of the church lay two coffins
The wail turned out to be from Lady Capulet. “Juliet… My love! My precious!”, she mourned. Lord Capulet just sat there beside her, with his bloodshot eyes, opening and closing his mouth but no sound came out. Next to them sat Lord Montague with a deranged look on his face. Losing both, his beloved wife and treasured son in one night was far too much for him. Prince Escalus wore a grievous and grim expression, after all he had also lost one of his closest relatives, Count Paris. “This feud has lasted long enough and has already resulted in the deaths of many. Now it has concluded in the deaths of their own children and the County Paris. I do hope that this is the last we’ll ever see of the Capulet-Montague feud!”, thought Prince Escalus
Friar Lawrence stood up in his pure white vestment but with a dark look on his face. His plan had failed terribly. Instead of giving Romeo and Juliet a reason to live, he had given them a reason to die. Cursing himself all the way up to the pulpit, he slowly turned to face all the mourners. “Dearly beloved people,” he said in a low voice, “Today we are gathered here to mourn the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In the Name of God, the merciful Father, we commit the bodies of Romeo and Juliet to the peace of the grave. From dust you came…” He just could not go any further. Silently, he retreated from the pulpit and seeked refuge in his cell as everyone else murmured “Amen.”
Everybody quietly watched as the two coffins were lifted and placed in a tomb, together. The Capulet’s and the Montagues had their heads bent down in shame and sorrow. They knew that all these deaths, their own children’s deaths had occurred due to them and their huge egos. They were aware that they owed the citizens of Verona, the Prince and their own children an apology and they intended to give it to them. With their children, they decided to bury the hatchet forever. Yes, the burial was a start to a new and long lasting