Diary Entry from Juliet

Diary Entry from Juliet

JULIET
(Before taking
potion)

Dear Diary,
        I am facing a terribly hard decision -- I don’t know whether to take the potion that Friar Lawrence gave me or not.   If I drink it, I shall be risking my life because there is a great chance that the potion may fail and be fatal.   What if I’m accidentally buried alive and wake up in a coffin with nothing but my dead ancestors all around me?   I can’t even bear the chilling thought of it!   I hate to force my parents to cope with a second death in the family; after all, the have been through so much pain during the last couple of days.   Although my father was mad when I confronted him about Paris, I still think he would be devastated to lose his only child.   But assuming that drinking this poison actually works, it does mean that I can be with Romeo.   And that is what means more to me than anything in the world.
-Juliet