Read Juliet’s dialogue from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.

Question

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 pack’d;

In this excerpt, the motif of night emphasizes Juliet’s fear that

Romeo will join her in death.
she will be haunted by ghosts.
Romeo will never find her.
she will never wake up.

Answer 1

In this excerpt, the motif of night emphasizes Juliet’s fear that she will never wake up. Her contemplation of death and the dark, foreboding imagery suggests her anxiety about the consequences of taking the potion and the possibility of not waking from the induced sleep.