Read Juliet’s dialogue from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d; In this excerpt, the motif of night emphasizes Juliet’s fear that Romeo will join her in death. she will be haunted by ghosts. Romeo will never find her. she will never wake up.