playful until the end

What's in a name?

“What’s in a name?”

Yes. A name indicates an identity. But because their families are mortal enemies both of them can not escape their names. 

Another scene again in Juliet’s balcony when Romeo is saying goodbye to Juliet before he is banished to Mantua. They hear a bird sings: is it a nightingale singing in the night or is it a lark signifying dawn? Romeo has to live before dawn because to stay means death.Juliet: “It is not yet near day./It was the nightingale, and not the lark.”

Romeo: “It was the lark, the herald of the morn,/No nightingale.”

The nightingale keeps them together longer while the lark means separation.

Even at the end in their death their words are playful, with a touch of a bitter humor in the midst of death, she has the heart to say: (Romeo) “left no friendly drop to help me after.”

They are young. They are bold and dare to love against all the odds. They die faithful to each other and with their integrity intact.