Romeo & Juliet - Journal # 5

Act I, Scene 5
Juliet: Go, ask his name. -If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.

This first exaple I picked because she says that her grave will be her wedding bed if she can't have Romeo, and it is a premonition because later on in the story, a very short while after she gets married to Romeo, she dies, so her grave is pretty much her wedding bed anyways, since it all happened so quick!


Act II, Scene 3
Friar Laurence: Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

This second example I picked because Friar Laurence is telling Romeo that if Juliet and himself go too fast and rush into everything, nothing will work out. It is a premonition because Romeo and Juliet rushed into everything: they met, fell in love and got married all in one week, and then they both ended up dying for each other. Maybe if they hadn't rushed into everything, instead just taking things slow, they would've lived happily ever after.

Act II, Scene 6
Romeo: That one short minute gives me in her sight.
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring Death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.

This third example I picked because Romeo is saying that once Juliet & himself get married, death can come but it doesn't matter because he loves her and he has her now. It is a premonition because after they get married, Juliet takes the potion to pretend she's dead so she can be with Romeo, but Romeo thinks she's ACTUALLY dead and so "love-devouring Death do what he dare" happens to him later on. Then he drinks poison so he can die and be with her in heaven, but then Juliet wakes up and kills herself once she sees Romeo dead.