Act 4: Soliloquy

Soliloquy: A part of the play when an actor is on stage alone or talking to themselves out loud and sharing there feelings. Juliet: "Farewell! 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: Nurse! What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there." This is a soliloquy of Juliet speaking to herself and sharing her fears out loud before she takes the potion. Even though she is very scared to take the potion she drinks it anyways to stop herself from marrying Paris, and being un faithful to Romeo. As she is about to take the potion she has so many thoughts going through her head, for example she is thinking what if the Friar actually wants to kill her, or if she takes it and never comes back or what if she takes it but still wakes up in the morning and marries Paris or what if she takes the potion but she wakes up within a day or two and not three days, or she goes insane when she is in the tomb. Juliet has all of this on her mind but in the end she takes it anyways. This right here shows Juliet's character. She is so terrified on what will happen to her but does it to be true to Romeo and show her love. This shows Juliet's courage. When Juliet did that it made me like her as a character because of her courage.