Juliet drinks Friar Lawrence's potion, which she fears may actually be poison, rather than enter into a bigamous marriage with Paris.
The marriage between Juliet and Paris was originally planned to take place on Thursday.
In Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's reversed thought is when she decides to take the potion and appear dead to avoid marrying Paris. In Act 5, Romeo's reversed thought is deciding to take his life after mistakenly believing Juliet has died, rather than finding another way to be with her.
Juliet is feeling a mixture of fear, desperation, and determination before she drinks the vial of liquid because she is afraid of marrying Paris, desperate to be with Romeo, and determined to take control of her own fate.
Romeo's servant brings him news of Juliet's death in Mantua. The servant is unaware that Juliet's death is a ruse to avoid marrying Paris, leading Romeo to return to Verona and ultimately take his own life.
Romeo and Paris.
About the one with Paris? No, not really. She is told in Act 1 that Paris is interested in marrying her, and that she should check him out at the party. Of course she is otherwise engaged with Romeo and doesn't take much notice of Paris. (The Luhrmann film does this rather well.) As for setting the date of the marriage to Paris, Capulet does this without consulting Juliet first, and then is placed in an embarrassing position when it turns out that Juliet does not want to marry Paris after all. As is typical of people who make assumptions about how other people feel and think, he gets mad at her for disproving his assumption.
Act 4, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet takes place in Friar Laurence's cell, where Juliet goes to seek his help in devising a plan to avoid marrying Paris and reunite with Romeo.
Juliet is prepared to take her own life if Friar Lawrence does not help her avoid marrying Paris.
Juliet knocks at Friar Lawrence's door seeking help because she is in desperate need of a solution to avoid marrying Paris. She is willing to take his advice and go to great lengths to be with Romeo instead.
The Friar gives Juliet six steps to follow in order to avoid marrying Paris: 1) Fake her death with a potion, 2) Give consent to marry Paris while planning to run away, 3) Take the potion the night before the wedding, 4) Be put in the family tomb, 5) Romeo will come for her, and 6) They will escape together.
NO!!!! no because Juliet agrees to marry Paris but Juliet is going to take the vial of "stuff" and they will think she is dead and Juliet and romeo will runaway and live together
Capulet tells Paris to marry Juliet, as he (Capulet) is hoping that it will take her mind off her grief of her cousin's death. (Although, Juliet is actually more upset about Romeo's exile than Tybalt's death, but her parents don't know that.)