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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.

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Does Juliet fear swallowing the potion?

She worries that their plan might not work. She worries that the friar might be trying to poison her.


What does Juliet take to bed in case her plan doesn't work?

A dagger. If the friar's potion doesn't work, she will stab herself.


What are some concerns that Juliet has before drinking the potion?

it will work too well, it wont work at all, romeo wont show up or just wont care about her "death" . Or being alone with all the bodies, continuing their lives together. She fears that either it might not work and she'll have to marry Paris the next morning, and that it might be a poison and she might die. "What if this mixture do not work at all?" (Act 4, Scene 3, 21.) "What if it be a poison, which the friar/ Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead… (Act 4, Scene 3, 24-25)


How does the king propose to rid himself of Hamlet?

His first plan is to send Hamlet off to England along with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. R & G will have orders to have the English execute Hamlet. That doesn't work out, however, so Claudius then proposes to make use of Laertes's desire to avenge his father's death, and have Laertes kill Hamlet. Or if that doesn't work out, Claudius proposes to poison Hamlet.


Describe one of the fearful thoughts or visions that comes to Juliet when she is alone at night in her bedroom?

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.

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