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Question:Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this,
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.
If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise
And with this knife I’ll help it presently.
God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s sealed,
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both.
Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,
Give me some present counsel; or, behold,
’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
Which the commission of thy years and art
Could to no issue of true honor bring.
Be not so long to speak. I long to die
If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.


Juliet says the above in scene 1 of Act 4. I need to analyze her monolague in both in terms of plot and character development and in terms of its language...

any help would be great.


Thanks.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this,
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.
If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise
And with this knife I’ll help it presently.
God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s sealed,
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both.
Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,
Give me some present counsel; or, behold,
’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
Which the commission of thy years and art
Could to no issue of true honor bring.
Be not so long to speak. I long to die
If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.


Juliet says the above in scene 1 of Act 4. I need to analyze her monolague in both in terms of plot and character development and in terms of its language...

any help would be great.


Thanks.

Simple:
She will not be forced into another marriage.
She would rather commit suicide.
She is desperate, (near hysteria).
She is going to do it now if the Friar, (who married
her in the first place), has no plan to protect her
from this proposed forced marriage now.
(This leads into the sleeping potion/ poison trick).