Juliet is the one who kills herself with Romeo’s dagger after realizing he killed himself.
This quote is from Juliet during her famous death scene. When she addresses the dagger she is basically saying she is fed up with life because lately it has been one disappointment after another. She finally found her love and married him, but then he killed her cousin Tybalt, was banished, and then came back and died. Bummer!
When Romeo finds Juliet asleep, seemingly dead, he takes poison he has brought with him and kills himself.
Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee … (Act 5, Scene 3)
It gets even worse from there. Juliet wakes up from her drug-imposed coma to find her husband has killed himself. She is young, and in her grief she can’t imagine living without him. The first thing she does is check to see if he has any poison left so she can kill herself the same way he killed himself.
What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? (Act 5, Scene 3)
No poison. Oh well, she takes his dagger and then stabs herself with it instead.
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