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Where I have learned me to repent the sin
Of disobedient opposition
To you and your behests, and am enjoined
By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here
To beg your pardon. (falls to her knees)
Pardon, I beseech you!
Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.
In Act 4, Scene 2, Juliet tells her father this elaborate lie stating that she’s accepted the error or her ways in resisting his plans that she marry Paris. As she says this, it isn’t hard to think that her ears might still be ringing with Friar Lawrence’s admonishment to her at the end of Scene 1 that the plan to have her fake her death will not succeed if she changes her mind or shows “womanish” fear. With this detailed story she’s made up to assuage and distract her parents, she is demonstrating (as she has throughout the play) that when she makes up her mind, she is not going to back down—in other words, that she has remarkable strength even if other characters seem intent on underestimating her.
