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Go waken Juliet. Go and trim her up.
I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,
Make haste. The bridegroom he is come already.
Make haste, I say.
Scene 4 of Act 4 is a brief but poignant scene showing the Capulet household busily preparing for Juliet’s wedding to Paris the morning of the day it is supposed to occur. What the Capulets do not know, but which the audience does, is that they will find Juliet dead (or so they will believe) in her room. These last sad lines in Scene 4 are spoken by Capulet, who at the point he says them believes he has gotten his daughter to bend to his will and that he has made the best of a bad situation caused by the recent killings and general upheaval between the two families. You can read more about Capulet’s possible motivations throughout the play in his in-depth Character Analysis.
