A potion cooked up by Friar Lawrence.
The potion that Juliet takes in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours.
she takes a sleeping potion that the Friar made.
He gives her a potion which will make her appear to be dead.
In Act 5 Scene 3 the Friar describes it as "a sleeping potion."
Romeo and Juliet were found dead in the Capulet family tomb in Verona. Juliet took a potion to make her appear dead in order to escape her arranged marriage, but Romeo, believing her truly dead, took his own life next to her before she woke up.
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.
The one that made her sleep was three days. The one that made her die was forever.
On the day of Juliet's wedding to Paris, she takes a potion given to her by Friar Laurence to make her appear dead and avoid the marriage. When her family finds her seemingly lifeless, they grieve and lay her in the family tomb.
Romeo went into the crypt and found Juliet "dead" but she had just taken a drink that would make her look dead. Romeo kills himself because he thinks Juliet is dead, and then Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead and kills herself too.
The Friar gives Juliet a vial of potion that will make her appear dead to help her escape her arranged marriage to Paris. This plan is meant to give Juliet time to be with Romeo and avoid marrying Paris.
Romeo died first. Juliet took a fake potion to make her sleep but appear to be dead. Romeo then drank his potion presuming her dead and died. Juliet then woke up to find Romeo dead and stabbed herself with his knife.
Romeo and Juliet contains dramatic irony. The best example of dramatic irony in the play is in Act 5 when Romeo sees Juliet and thinks that she is dead because of the potion she took earlier that day to make her appear dead. Romeo sees this and then stabs himself and when Juliet wakes up and sees that Romeo has killed himself she then commits suicide also.