Juliet consents to the plan wholeheartedly. Friar Lawrence gives her the sleeping potion. Juliet returns home, where she finds Capulet and Lady Capulet preparing for the wedding. She surprises her parents by repenting her disobedience and cheerfully agreeing to marry Paris. Capulet is so pleased that he insists on moving the marriage up a day, to Wednesday—tomorrow. Juliet heads to her chambers to, ostensibly, prepare for her wedding. Capulet heads off to tell Paris the news.
He is always treated as a benign, wise presence. The tragic failure of his plans is treated as a disastrous accident for which Friar Lawrence bears no responsibility. He is not exactly an adversary to Romeo and Juliet, since he never acts consciously to harm them or go against their wishes.
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Back to the Play. Romeo and Juliet. Act 4,. Scene 5. Nurse Mistress! Nurse Oh what a terrible day! Nurse Look, look! Oh horrible day! Lady Capulet Oh me, oh no! Capulet For shame, will you bring Juliet already? Her groom is here. Curse the day! Capulet What? Lady Capulet Oh what a tragic time! Friar Laurence Come now, is the bride ready to go to church? Capulet Ready to go to the church, but she will never return.
Lady Capulet Accursed, sorrowful, wretched, hateful day! Nurse Oh woe! Juliet is appalled. Capulet enters the chamber. When Juliet entreats her mother to intercede, her mother denies her help. After Capulet and Lady Capulet storm away, Juliet asks her nurse how she might escape her predicament. The Nurse advises her to go through with the marriage to Paris—he is a better match, she says, and Romeo is as good as dead anyhow.
If the friar is unable to help her, Juliet comments to herself, she still has the power to take her own life. To combat the coming of the light, Juliet attempts once more to change the world through language: she claims the lark is truly a nightingale.
Where in the balcony scene Romeo saw Juliet as transforming the night into day, here she is able to transform the day into the night. But just as their vows to throw off their names did not succeed in overcoming the social institutions that have plagued them, they cannot change time. As fits their characters, it is the more pragmatic Juliet who realizes that Romeo must leave; he is willing to die simply to remain by her side.
In a moment reminiscent of the balcony scene, once outside, Romeo bids farewell to Juliet as she stands at her window. Here, the lovers experience visions that blatantly foreshadow the end of the play. Good night. Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,.
That almost freezes up the heat of life. I'll call them back again to comfort me. My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? No, no. This shall forbid it.
Lie thou there. What if it be a poison which the friar. Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,. Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored,. Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not ,.
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