Romeo and Juliet - Act 4 (quotes)

Question 1

Juliet feels like her mess of a situation is helpless

Answer 1

“Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!”

Question 2

Juliet tells the Friar that she would rater jump off the battlements of a tower than marry Paris

Answer 2

“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,

From off the battlements of any tower,”

Question 3

The Friar explains his plan to Juliet and says that when she takes the potion she will appear dead

Answer 3

“No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest.”

Question 4

Juliet pretends to be apologetic to her father and says that she will do whatever he wishes from now on. She does all of this in order to make her plan work

Answer 4

“Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.”

Question 5

Alone, Juliet wonders what will happen if the potion doesn’t work at all

Answer 5

“What if this mixture do not work at all?”

Question 6

Juliet fears that the friar may be trying to cover up his involvement in the secret marriage and has just given her poison

Answer 6

“What if it be poison which the friar

Subtly hath ministered to have me dead”

Question 7

Juliet fears that she may wake before Romeo comes to get her and that she will suffocate in the vault

Answer 7

“How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me?…
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault”

Question 8

Capulet mourns the death of his daughter

Answer 8

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost”