Forty-two hours. Or, not quite two days. So, if Juliet took it at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning she would wake up at 10 p.m. Thursday night. They arranged funerals pretty quickly in Verona.
Juliet first tells Paris she is going to marry him. Then the night before the wedding day she drinks a potion that she got from Friar Laurence, as Friar Laurence decides to help her be with Romeo. (He decides to help only because it would be a sin to marry Juliet to two people.) Anyways, the potion is suppose to make her seem dead. Then there is a above ground tomb where all the Capulets are barried and she will be barried there. She is willing to stay in there for a long time until the potion wears out. As she stays in there Friar Laurence is to tell Romeo about everything that happened so Romeo could rescue her.
In Act IV Scene 3 Juliet has a long speech in which she expresses her fears about taking the potion which will allow her to fake her death. She is afraid that the potion will not work, or that it is actually poison and will kill her, and that it will work but nobody will come to the tomb to get her when she wakes up and she will be buried alive.
Not long: Only a day or so.
Juliet gives voice to her thoughts in a long soliloquy in Act 4 Scene 3 of the play. She worries that: 1. The potion won't work and she'll have to marry Paris anyway. No, if that happens she'll just kill herself with a dagger. 2. The potion is really a poison. No, not Friar Lawrence! 3. She will wake up before Romeo shows and be stuck with a bunch of dead people, like Tybalt, which will drive her crazy.
Romeo and Juliet do get married in the play, but it is not in a scene. When it is played in theatres etc, they have the chose whether or not to put it into the play as shakepeare did not. You know like an added part. Oh and they get married in Friar Laurences cell!
Forty-two hours
The Friars potion will last for 24 hours once consumed.
The plant root used in Friar Lawrence's sleeping potion is called mandrake root. It is a poisonous plant with a long history in folklore and mythology and is often associated with magical and mystical properties. In Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," Friar Lawrence uses mandrake root in the potion that puts Juliet into a deep sleep to feign her death.
The sleeping potion will last for twelve hours.
a few minutes.
The potion that the priest, Friar Laurence gave Juliet to make her appear to be dead would only work for 42 hours which is a little less then two days.
Juliet first tells Paris she is going to marry him. Then the night before the wedding day she drinks a potion that she got from Friar Laurence, as Friar Laurence decides to help her be with Romeo. (He decides to help only because it would be a sin to marry Juliet to two people.) Anyways, the potion is suppose to make her seem dead. Then there is a above ground tomb where all the Capulets are barried and she will be barried there. She is willing to stay in there for a long time until the potion wears out. As she stays in there Friar Laurence is to tell Romeo about everything that happened so Romeo could rescue her.
The potion that Juliet takes in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours.
the sleeping potion actually lasts 42 hours,
Juliet's sleeping potion in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" lasts for 42 hours. She takes it to feign death and is found by Romeo, who believes her to be truly dead. This tragic misunderstanding leads to the eventual demise of both lovers.
In Act IV Scene 3 Juliet has a long speech in which she expresses her fears about taking the potion which will allow her to fake her death. She is afraid that the potion will not work, or that it is actually poison and will kill her, and that it will work but nobody will come to the tomb to get her when she wakes up and she will be buried alive.
During the long journey to his new order, the friar accompanied a group of veteran knights. To make amends for his past, the disgraced nobleman became a Dominican friar.