Romeo And Juliet Nurse Importance

In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the nurse was supposed to love and nurture Juliet, but instead guided her to her death. The Nurse involved herself in their love and promoted it. The Nurse knew what who Romeo was from the beginning and could have prevented the tragedy that eventually unfolded. She helped the lovers unite in secretive ways and arranged the marriage. She did everything she could to bring the love together and she did not look to the future of what might happen to the lovers. The Nurse is at fault for the death of Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse could have stopped the death at the end of the tragedy if she stopped the love from the beginning. The Nurse knew that the family was at feud with the Montague’s,

Romeo and Juliet had to keep their love at secret, they had to meet up in secret and be together without anyone noticing, and the Nurse did the messages and schemes. Throughout the tragedy, the Nurse goes out of her way to bring the two lovers together. The Nurse becomes like a messenger between the two since they cannot be seen together and cannot get out being with one another. She was a messenger when the two were planning to get married. She had to get the word to Juliet that they were going to get married. From the Nurse doing this, she supported the marriage once again and made the love even stronger. If there was, no marriage and she could have lied and said they could not, there would be no true passionate love between them and then there would be no death. Another instance of this was the night of their marriage. Romeo came up with a plan to be with Juliet the night of their marriage by sneaking into her room with a rope ladder. Romeo said to the Nurse, “And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall. / within this hour my man shall be with thee / And bring the cords made like a tackled stair” (2. 4. 175-177). With Romeo saying this to the Nurse, she is to throw a rope ladder over Juliet’s Balcony so that he can climb up to her. The Nurse ends up doing this so she so far is being a supporter of this marriage and shows no desire to end