The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Hazel Court: Juliana

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Quotes 

• Juliana : Prince Prospero? Why do you roam the late night corridors?

  Prospero : Sleep eludes me.

  Juliana : You have disturbing thoughts?

  Prospero : And you, Juliana? What keeps you awake?

  Juliana : I think my thoughts dwell on the same subject as yours. The peasant girl.

  Prospero : She has a perfect faith.

  Juliana : So do I. In you and in what you believe. I've been an eager student but I've held back from the final ceremonies. And now I'm ready to join you at the invocation.

  Prospero : How truly realistic women are. Finally, you are ready to dare the most terrible rites and incantations to secure your position here. I wonder. I wonder if she is ready to dare as much if anything for the sake of love.

• Juliana : Gino , my father where are they?

  Prospero : [laughing as Francesca hides herself]  Modesty but no humility, why do you hide yourself?

  Francesca : It's not right that you should look at me.

  Prospero : That cross you wear around your neck is it only a decoration or are you a true christian believer?

  Francesca : Yes I believe truly.

  Prospero : Then I want you to remove it at once and never to wear it within this castle again.

  [holds out his hand while Francesca takes off her necklace] 

  Prospero : .

  Juliana : This peasant girl is she always to be bathed in my bedroom?

  Prospero : We'll find you another room Juliana, meanwhile you will dress the Lady Francesca in one of your finest gowns.

  Juliana : I don't...

  Prospero : Later you can instruct her in the ways of the court.

  Francesca : Please my father.

  Prospero : Your father... oh yes your father and your lover are being quartered in a warm and safe place, now I must go and join my guests.

  Juliana : [turning to Francesca]  You may think that you have impressed the Prince Prospero, but you can count on little help from me.

  Francesca : You will do as he told you.

  Juliana : Yes as we all must do.

  Francesca : I will do what I must to save my men, but if they are killed I will die and so will Prince Prospero.

• Francesca : [after Gino has been ordered to be removed from the castle]  Prince Prospero let me go with him.

  Prospero : You?

  Francesca : Please.

  Prospero : You , oh no my dear I couldn't bear to think of... No

  [to the crowd] 

  Prospero : you will go to your rooms now and prepare for the masque, you will not appear in your costumes until... midnight.

  Prospero : [turns to see Francesca following him]  Why do you follow me?

  Francesca : Bring Gino back and I will do whatever you wish.

  Prospero : You would destroy yourself for him?

  Francesca : Yes.

  Prospero : [smiling]  You almost cause me to doubt.

  Juliana : Prospero, my prince I'm ready

  [removes the rose to reveal the mark she gave herself] 

  Juliana : .

• Francesca : Juliana, thank God, I thought... don't know.

  [sees the burn mark on Juliana's breast] 

  Francesca : What's that?

  Juliana : Satan's mark.

  Francesca : Prospero did THAT to you?

  Juliana : No, I did it to myself. Marks me as one of Satan's handmaidens.

• Juliana : My master... Satan!

  [Prospero laughs from another room] 

  Juliana : Prospero? Prospero?

  [Gets up] 

  Juliana : I am betrothed... of the devil. And I have seen the terrors.

  Prospero : Not all of them.

  Juliana : [Enters the white room]  I have survived my own sacrifice.

  Prospero : There is more.

  Juliana : [Enters the purple room]  And I'm stronger in the devil's favor than you are!

  [Enters the yellow room] 

  Juliana : Together on earth... we shall live as man and wife... and when he calls us, you shall be saved... and I, still, your wife!

  [Enters the main ballroom and walks toward the clock] 

  Juliana : I have tasted the beauties of terror.

  Prospero : Hush. Listen. The passing of time... the beating of a heart... the footsteps of an assassin... destiny!

  [Juliana is killed by Prospero's hawk] 

• Juliana : Demon lover, of all those who wish to live in your eternal night, here in your hour of deepest dark, in your temple, and before your altar, I twice bind myself to thee - as your handmaiden and your betrothed.