Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion at the opening of Act 4. It is the only way she can avoid being bigamously married to Paris. It is not a poison, however, just a Mickey Finn designed to knock her out for a couple of days.
She gets it from Friar Laurence, a Franciscan who Romeo trusts.
it was a potion that makes her seem dead so she doesn't have to marry paris, but it just makes her sleep until romeo comes and wakes her up
Frier Laurence
Friar Laurence, a Franciscan
It is not named in the text.
Friar Laurence
Juliet says, "Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee!" and she drinks Friar Lawrence's potion.
she takes a sleeping potion that the Friar made.
She begins to have doubts that she might not awake from the potion and that she might die after she has taking the potion.
i think it was a dagger in case the potion didn't work
Juliet worries that Friar Lawrence's sleeping potion is actually a poison.
Friar Laurence tells Juliet that she will appear dead for 42 hours after she drinks the potion, and then she will wake up as if from a pleasant sleep.
That she will be in a coma for two days.
Juliet says, "Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee!" and she drinks Friar Lawrence's potion.
In her soliloquy before drinking the potion, Juliet does not express regret over her love for Romeo. She is instead focused on finding a way to be with him despite the obstacles in their path.
Juliet drinks Friar Lawrence's potion, which she fears may actually be poison, rather than enter into a bigamous marriage with Paris.
In Act 5 of Romeo and Juliet, a prominent symbol is the potion that Juliet drinks to fake her death. This potion represents her desperation and willingness to undertake extreme measures to be with Romeo. It also symbolizes the fragility of their forbidden love and the tragic consequences that stem from their inability to be together openly.
In the story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet kills herself by plunging a dagger into her chest. She originally drinks a potion to appear dead, and when her love Romeo sees her "dead" he drinks poison to kill himself. When Juliet awakes and sees Romeo dead, she takes a dagger to her chest, plunging it in.
Friar Lawrence tells Juliet that the potion will make her appear as if she is dead. Her body will be cold and stiff with no sign of life for 42 hours.
The potion that Juliet takes in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours.
Juliet fears that the potion may not work and she will have to marry Paris, that she may awaken alone in the tomb surrounded by corpses and ghosts, and that the potion may actually be poison that will harm her when she drinks it.
that the potion wont work .
Juliet's second worry about taking the potion is that it might not work as intended and she will have to face marrying Paris.