This means being completely devoted to Romeo, and feeling no necessity to stay for her family. Her taking the potion is also dramatic irony, as her parents think that she is dead, but Friar Lawrence has made it so she will wake up while she is in the Get Access...
Juliet feels that she can no longer confide in her and the impact of this sudden betrayal of trust, encourages Juliet to seek help from the Friar, which is a contributing factor to Juliet taking the potion. The Nurse’s actions were not malicious, she merely acted 156 Words 1 Pages ...
Juliet is arguably Shakespeare’s strongest, most passionate female character. In this version, the actor simply recites the lines, and Juliet’s most passionate speeches are not there at all. The scene where she shows superhuman courage by taking the potion that will put her into a death-lik...
So I started with the potion scene, and I got all dramatic and—because, you know, in the film he cut it down to one line: "Love, give me strength." But there's actually a whole monologue that she does before taking the potion. G:It's a whole scene. OH:And by the time I'd...
On the Wednesday night Juliet drank off the potion. She had many misgivings lest the friar, to avoid the blame which might be imputed to him for marrying her to Romeo, had given her poison; but then he was always known for a holy man: then lest she should awake before the time that...
They look on in silence as she voices her apprehension about taking the sleeping potion and waking in the family tomb. When she works up the resolve to drink it, a kind of lucid madness seems to overcome her as she toasts Romeo with tears streaming down her face. Godwin uses the various...
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taking up the dialogue as if her words had been addressed to him personally, and not merely in fancy, he bade her call him Love, or by whatever other name she pleased, for he was no longer Romeo, if that name was displeasing to her. Juliet, alarmed to hear a man's voice in the ...
293.winking at, partially closing my eyes to, not taking that vigorous notice which, as the head of the state, I was bound to take. 296.This is ... jointure, the only dowry you can make my daughter;jointure, properly the property estated on the wife by the husband when they are ...
Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doting like me, and like me banished, Then mightest thou speak, then mightest thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave. Knock [within]. FRIAR...