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please provide act scene line(s)


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Probably the most powerful personification in the play is the image of Death as Juliet’s husband, which recurs in different forms:

And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!
(Act 3 Scene 2, line 137)

I would the fool were married to her grave.
(Act 3 Scene 5, line 140)

Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
My daughter he hath wedded. (Act 4 Scene 5, lines 38–9)

Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
(Act 5 Scene 3, lines 102–5)

In all these lines death is personified as a living, breathing person- and that death has married Juliet in place of Romeo. This highlights the tragic path that the couple have to follow, all the obstacles that lie in their way and is obviously hinting at their fate which we already are aware of.
In marrying Romeo, Juliet has already signed her fate- so perhaps in a way these personifications are more accurate than false. Juliet has married into her death.

also to go along with above examples.

after "death is my son in law death is my heir."
He also says. "Flower as she was, deflowered by him"