How did Juliet sleep?

The Friar offers Juliet a remedy — a sleeping potion that she is to take on Wednesday night, the evening before the wedding. The potion will render Juliet unconscious, and she will appear to be dead for 42 hours, during which time her body will rest in the family tomb.
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Where does Juliet's body sleep?

Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capels' monument, And her immortal part with angels lives.
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Why did Juliet put herself to sleep?

Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, then order that she marry Paris, another Capulet. Juliet does not want to marry Paris. Juliet goes to Friar Laurence for a solution, so she will not have to marry Paris; his idea is to make her appear dead. She accepts the plan and drinks the poison that Friar gives her.
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Who gave Juliet a sleeping potion?

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.
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What does Juliet take to bed with her?

She takes a dagger to her bed because if the potion does not work she will kill herself with the dagger. Why does Juliet take a dagger to bed with her? He mixed a potion that will kill her and it is made out of poison. What does Juliet fear about Friar Laurence and the potion?
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What did Juliet stab herself with?

Rather than stay with her, the Friar leaves the tomb and Juliet is left alone. She then kills herself with Romeo's dagger.
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Did Romeo and Juliet sleep with each other?

At the beginning of Act III, scene v, Romeo and Juliet are together in Juliet's bed just before dawn, having spent the night with each other and feeling reluctant to separate. We might conclude that we're meant to infer that they just had sex, and that may be the way the scene is most commonly understood.
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What drug did Juliet take?

Sleeping draughts

In the final act of Romeo and Juliet, our tragic heroine takes a potion to fake her own death and place her into a catatonic state. Many believe the potion is most likely to be deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna) a plant native to Europe.
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What did Juliet say before she drank the potion?

Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone; Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off.
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Why did Juliet poison herself?

Juliet had killed herself because she saw Romeo's dead body. Romeo had killed himself because he had heard that Juliet had died. Also, the letter he was supposed to receive from the friar had come too late. It was all because of the Friar's poor planning that Romeo and Juliet died.
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How did Juliet wake up?

Later that night, a fearful Juliet drinks the potion the Friar has given her and hopes that all will work out. The next morning, the Capulet home is busy preparing for the wedding and Lord Capulet sends Juliet's Nurse to wake her.
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How long did Juliet's coma last?

Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a potion that will put her into a deathlike coma or catalepsy for "two and forty hours". The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan so that he can rejoin her when she awakens.
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When did Juliet stab herself?

Act 5, scene 3.
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What does Juliet say right before she dies?

Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself (5.3. 171). She dies upon Romeo's body.
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Where was Juliet lying when she died?

Balthasar, a friend of Romeo's, brings him news that Juliet is dead and lies in the Capulet tomb. Resolved to find her and join her in death, Romeo first visits an apothecary and bribes him to obtain an illegal (and lethal) poison.
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What was Juliet lying on when she died?

What was Juliet lying on when she died? In the Romeo and Juliet death scene, Juliet is lying in the tomb, under the influence of a sleeping potion that makes it appear that she has died. Romeo finds her in the tomb.
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What 4 things does Juliet fear?

Juliet fears multiple things in this scene. She worries that the potion will not work, that it will kill her, that she will awaken too early and suffocate, or that she will awaken too early, and go mad, potentially killing herself.
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What are Juliet's three fears before drinking the potion?

She will lose her mind and marry Paris. She will forget all about Romeo. She will die or wake up alone in the tomb.
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Who gave Juliet the poison?

Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that will make her appear dead so she does not have to marry again. He sends Romeo a note to explain the plan and Juliet takes the potion. Her body is moved to the family tomb. Romeo does not receive the note about the potion from Friar Laurence and thinks Juliet is really dead.
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Can nightshade put you to sleep?

Sleeping nightshade is one of several plants with sleep-inducing properties mentioned in Gerard's Herball. When consumed it makes people waver between sleep and death.
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What plant can knock you out?

Henbane. Hyoscyamus niger, henbane, is, like mandrake, a member of a huge botanical order, the Solanaceae, and like mandrake is capable of inducing a profound and long lasting unconsciousness, thanks to its hyoscine content.
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What mental illness does Juliet have?

In Shakespeare's tragedies, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a common mental illness throughout. In Romeo and Juliet, they both display symptoms of BPD.
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How big is the age gap between Romeo and Juliet?

In Shakespeare's original story, Romeo is given the age of 16 years and Juliet is given the age of 13 years. The Montague and Capulet families originated in the Divine Comedy by the Italian author Dante Aligheri, rather than in Shakespeare.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a big age gap?

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was 13 years old. Romeo's age is never specified, but some say he was anywhere from 16 to 21 years old. Most agree he was several years older than Juliet. The story goes that the two find forbidden love, secretly marry, and end up taking their own lives.
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How old was the guy Juliet was supposed to marry?

However, in the English poem the story is based on (Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke) Juliet is approaching her sixteenth birthday and Romeo is the same age whereas in the Bandello novella she is nearly eighteen with Romeo about twenty.
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