1. Briefly explain Friar Laurence's plan, as he explains it to Juliet in Scene 1.
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2. What reason does Juliet give her father for changing her mind and deciding to marry Paris?
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3. What are Juliet's thoughts before drinking the potion?
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4. The Nurse's reaction to Juliet's death is comic, as is the last scene in the act with the servants switching the their plans from a wedding to a funeral.  What's the purpose of these comic scenes?
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Who said it, and what is he/she talking about?

5. "The roses in they lips and cheeks shall fade
    To wanny ashes, thy eyes' windows fall
    Like death when he shuts up the day of life..."
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6. "My heart is wondrous light,
    Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed."
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7. "I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
    That almost freezes up the heat of life."
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8. "Death lies on her like an untimely frost
    Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
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9. "O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!
    Never was seen so black a day as this.
    O woeful day! O woeful day!"
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