Romeo realizes who he has killed

Romeo stabs Paris, and then he hears Paris' "last wish." Romeo agrees to drag the body down into the tomb, and it is only then that he decides to look and see who this person was: "Let me peruse this face: Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!" (Lines 74-75). This sequence causes us to wonder whether Romeo would have fought, had he known who this intruder was. Before he stabbed Paris, Romeo described himself as a madman. He does not, however, call himself crazy...

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