In Act 3, Scene 3, Romeo learns of his own banishment. He tells the Friar that he would rather be dead than be alive and not be able to see Juliet. Romeo says that even flies are better than him because they can be close to Juliet. He makes it clear that without her his like is meaningless. "'Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, where Juliet lives...and sayst thou yet that exile is not death?"
Both characters react very dramatically and cannot comprehend Romeo's banishment. This tells us that they are extremely upset about the idea that they will never see each other again and hat they feel incomplete without the other.
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