Question

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.

Friar Laurence: Go hence; good-night; and here stands all your state:
Either be gone before the watch be set, 175
Or by the break of day disguis’d from hence:
Sojourn in Mantua; I’ll find out your man,
And he shall signify from time to time
Every good hap to you that chances here.
Give me thy hand; ’tis late: farewell; goodnight. 180
The dark of night motif used in this excerpt creates a sense of

urgency.
anxiety.
romance.
confusion.

Answer 1

Urgency.

The references to leaving “before the watch be set” and “’tis late” — and using the cover of night or disguising by dawn — create a pressing need to depart immediately.