take her own life
Juliet decides that if the potion does not work, she will take her own life by using Romeo's dagger.
Juliet worries that Friar Lawrence's sleeping potion is actually a poison.
She worries that their plan might not work. She worries that the friar might be trying to poison her.
She worries that the Friar may have given her a deadly poison instead of a knock-out potion.
Juliet fears that the potion might not work and she'll have to marry Paris. She also worries that the potion might actually kill her. Additionally, she is concerned that she might awaken early and be surrounded by the decaying bodies in the Capulet tomb.
The potion that Juliet takes in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is meant to make her appear dead for 42 hours.
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.
Friar Lawrence prepares the potion for Juliet in William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet."
She worries that the Friar may have given her poison, claiming it is a knockout potion, so that he won't have to face the problem of having to explain to the Capulets that he has already married Juliet to Romeo. She dismisses this fear, saying that the Friar is too holy a man to do that.
that it wont work and she will have to marry Paris and that she will be alone in a tomb when she wakes up. She also fears that the Friar Lawrence has poisoned the potion, she wakes up before Romeo comes to rescue her, she lives and ends up in a room with dead people, smelling the foul air, and that the dead Capulets' ghosts would come and haunt Juliet.
The potion Juliet took in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is a fictional concoction. It was a plot device to create dramatic tension in the story and is not an actual potion that exists in real life.
The potion which Juliet was to take was not poison. They were knockout drops, designed to make her look dead long enough to get buried then wake up and be reunited with Romeo. If they didn't work, she was prepared to stab herself to death, as she ultimately did.