JULIET: O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.
ROMEO: And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5. In their final scene together alive, Juliet foresees a tragic fate for Romeo, as she has a vision of him lying dead in a tomb. She reveals her sense of foreboding as Romeo departs and descends the ladder from her balcony. This is foreshadowing of how Romeo will visit Juliet’s tomb after she takes a potion that makes her appear dead and poisons himself. The heavy foreshadowing and dramatic tension are further heightened when they comment on how pale they both look, with Romeo personifying sorrow as having the human ability to drink their blood. The young lovers are both trapped by their tragic fates.