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Read Juliet’s soliloquy from act IV, scene III. Based on her dialogue, explain the conflict that Juliet faces. Is the conflict primarily external or internal? Explain why. 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. [Laying down her dagger] What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man. How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point! Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place,— As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed: Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort;— Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:— O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed with all these hideous fears? And madly play with my forefather's joints? And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud? And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone, As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.

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The conflict is mainly internal because Juliet is concerned about what will happen once she drinks the Friar’s “poison.” What if it’s a real poison and kills her instead of putting her to sleep temporarily? What if she wakes up and Romeo doesn’t come and she’s haunted by Tybalt’s ghost and goes insane? These are just a few of the scenarios she’s worried about happening to her when she drinks the “poison,” so it’s an internal conflict.
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Juliet’s soliloquy shows that although she is willing to go against her parents and society to be with Romeo, she has to confront her own inner doubts and feelings before she can take the final step and drink the potion that Friar Laurence has given her. The entire soliloquy focuses on her internal conflicts. No one else is involved in her decision; she has to convince herself.

Because she is a teenage girl, Juliet seems to long for the comfort of her family and nurse, and she almost calls them back:

"I'll call them back again to comfort me:

Nurse! What should she do here?

My dismal scene I needs must act alone. "

She worries that the potion won’t work, and she will be forced to marry Count Paris against her wishes. So, she has another plan. She lays her dagger by her side. If the potion does not work, she will kill herself:

"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. "

Though she is willing to kill herself with her dagger, she still fears death. She doubts the Friar, wondering if he’s given her poison so that he doesn’t have to bear the shame of marrying her to Count Paris after he’s already married her to Romeo.  

Juliet also scares herself with thoughts of all the horrible and disgusting things that she might see and hear if she wakes up in the tomb of her ancestors. She fears that the sight of her dead ancestors (including the recently buried Tybalt) might drive her mad:

"O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,

Environed with all these hideous fears?

And madly play with my forefather's joints? "

It is only when she imagines Tybalt’s ghost attacking Romeo to avenge his murder that she finds the courage to overcome all her fears and take the potion. Her love for Romeo helps her overcome her internal conflicts:

"O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost

Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body

Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!

Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee."

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