In Romeo and Juliet, explain three doubts that worry Juliet before she drinks Friar Lawrences potion.

As she is
about to drink 's potion, 's first doubt is that the poison will not work ("What if this
mixture do not work at all?") and that she will awake in the morning and have to marry .
Thinking of this eventuality, Juliet places a dagger by her side, and says, "this shall
forbid it," implying that if the poison does fail to work, she will stab herself upon
awakening, rather than marry Paris and be without .

Juliet's second doubt is
about the intentions of Friar Lawrence. She worries that he has deliberately given her "a
poison" to kill her. She speculates that perhaps he wants her dead "lest . . . he
should be dishonour'd" because he married Juliet to Romeo without the permission of the
parents.

Thehere is that Friar Lawrence has given her a poison, for as he
states in act two, scene three, "Poison hath residence and medicine power," meaning
that a poison is simply the wrong dosage of medicine and vice versa. Friar Lawrence, of course,
believes that the poison he has given to Juliet is in the right dosage and will prove to be a
medicine of sorts, but at this point in the play, neither he nor Juliet (nor indeed the
audience) can be absolutely sure.

Thirdly, Juliet worries that she will
"wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem" her. She is worried that she will
be "stifled in the vault" and suffocate before Romeo can get to her, or, if she
doesn't suffocate, she worries that she will be awake among the spirits of her "buried
ancestors," and, "hearing them, run mad." She doubts her own mind in these
possible circumstances, and she worries that in her possible madness, she will "dash out
(her) desperate brains" with a bone from one of her ancestor's dead bodies. At this moment,
Juliet imagines that she sees the ghost of the murderedwalking towards her, and only then, out
of fear, does she finally drink the potion.