In Romeo and Juliet, the Nurse and Friar Laurence are mentors for Romeo and Juliet. They help Romeo and Juliet be together even when one is a Montague and the other a Capulet. The Nurse and Friar Laurence are good characters and want Romeo and Juliet to be happy even if that means helping them be together. The Nurse is a mother figure towards Juliet and spends more time around her than her own mother. She knows what’s best for Juliet and wants her to be happy. The Nurse finds Romeo and Juliet flirting, and grabs Juliet and tells her “His name is Romeo, and a Montague; the only son of your great enemy” (Shakespeare 204). She knows that Juliet could get in a lot of trouble if she is caught with Romeo. The Nurse realizes that Juliet doesn’t love Paris, and she loves …show more content…
The Nurse talks to Romeo and says “Paris is the Proper man; but I’ll warrant you” (Shakespeare 222), which means Paris is the man she wants Juliet to marry, but she will approve of Romeo. The nurse does the right thing by helping Romeo and Juliet be together to make Juliet happy. Friar Laurence, a holy man, is a friend and advisor to Romeo. Romeo starts explaining his love for Juliet and his desire to get married. Friar Laurence says “Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (Shakespeare 216). Friar Laurence explains that Romeo just loved Rosaline and that loving Juliet is a mistake because he barely knows her and her beauty might be deceiving him. He tells Romeo to take it slow and not jump into things, “Wisely, and slow They stumble that run fast” (Shakespeare 217). Friar Laurence later agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet thinking that it will end the conflict between the two families. Friar Laurence did a good thing by wanting to end the conflict between the two families and help Romeo and Juliet be together. The
She fired Juliet’s passion in her relationship with Romeo, then told Juliet it all meant nothing and to go marry Paris. This brought Juliet’s death. Even though the Nurse meant the best for Juliet, her actions still brought the demise of Juliet and Romeo (although her actions had a larger consequence on Juliet’s death rather than Romeo’s). Juliet was told by Nurse that “his name is Romeo… he’s the only son of your worst enemy” (a1, s5, l136). Unknowingly, the Nurse was hyping their relationship from the start onwards, setting Romeo and Juliet up to their unfortunate fates. The Nurse was Juliet’s advisor and she should’ve stayed loyal to Juliet’s decisions and remained her confidante. However, she suddenly switches over to Juliet marrying Paris. This changeover was rash, unexpected and too sudden for poor Juliet to cope, who was being forced to wed Paris, while wanting to be faithful to Romeo. Therefore, the Nurse brought Juliet and Romeo’s death upon
This shows that the Nurse is following orders from Juliet, because she thinks it will make Juliet happy. Although she does, she does not seem to be bothered about the damage she could cause in the future. This is one reason why the Nurse could be to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Another point in the play where the Nurse contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is when the proposal of Paris comes along. At this stage in the play, Romeo has been banished.
This makes the Nurse and Friar Laurence major characters for Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence said consoling words towards Romeo when he felt guilty about killing Tybalt. Friar Laurence said ‘What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead— There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, but thou slew’st Tybalt—there art thou happy. The law that threatened death becomes thy friend and turns it to exile—there art thou happy. A pack of blessings light upon thy back, Happiness courts thee in her best array.’ For Juliet, the Nurse was the one who raised and breastfed her. In her long speech to Lady Capulet about Juliet, the Nurse states ‘'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years, and she was weaned—I never shall forget it— Of all the days of the year, upon that day. For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, Sitting in the sun under the dove house wall. My lord and you were then at Mantua. — Nay, I do bear a brain.’ Juliet’s own parents were not there for her when she was growing up and Romeo’s instinctively went to Friar Laurence for advice. If the Nurse and Friar Laurence were not a part of Romeo and Juliet’s lives, both Romeo and Juliet would be lost without the care and advice the Nurse and Friar Laurence provided. This shows their major importance in the lives for Romeo and
... marriage to Romeo). “Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence’s cell; There stays a husband to make you a wife. [...] Hie you to church; I must another way, to fetch a ladder, by the which your love must climb a bird’s nest soon when it’s dark” (II. v. 69-77). Nurse is willing to go to certain extents to help Juliet because she is like a daughter to her. She brainstorms the plan so the two young lovers can be together. Also, her actions improve the tale overall. “This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there” (II. iv. 175). In a way, Nurse is Juliet’s ‘wing-man’. She helps her get the chance to be with her suitor, which is what the whole plot revolves around.
The Nurse was also responsible for the tragic ending of the play. When Romeo and Juliet met, the Nurse became their messenger. She helped them be together even though she knew Romeo was a Montague and that Juliet's family would disapprove. The Nurse brought news to Juliet from Romeo telling her to sneak out so they could get married. She helped Juliet get out of her house by bringing her a rope ladder to climb off her balcony with and telling her parents that she went to shrift. The Nurse kept Romeo and Juliet's marriage a secret from the families. When Juliet's parents said she should marry Paris, the Nurse agreed and said that Juliet should forget about Romeo because he was in Mantua. With the Nurse no longer on her side she had no one to help her and back her up but the Friar. In this way she had a large impact on the terrible ending of Romeo and Juliet.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse and Friar Lawrence both intentionally advance Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, yet they help for very different reasons. The Nurse firmly believes that “women grow by men,” meaning that young girls should marry a proper man, aids Juliet’s relationship with Romeo so that Juliet herself could be happily married (1.2.95). Just before the Capulet ball, the Nurse encourages Juliet to “seek happy nights and happy days” urging her to watch for a suitable match at the ball, especially Paris (1.4.106). On the following day, the Nurse, sent by Juliet, willfully rushes to Romeo and arranges the next meeting between the two lovers because her greatest wish is for Juliet to be happily married. Before planning the union of the two
After investigating further, I believe that the Nurse was responsible for their deaths mainly because of her inability to care for Juliet which, in time, led to her betraying Juliet. She told her to marry Paris, even though the she knew what Juliet really wanted to do. She states, “I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels your first. Or if it did not, your first is dead…” (pg 204, lines 223-224). This shows that she did not care for Juliet’s love with Romeo anymore and how she gave up on her, which proves that she did not care for Juliet very
The Nurse was another ally to Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse loved Juliet and wanted what was best for her.
First,the Nurse could be blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet.A way that the Nurse contributed to their death is that she set the wedding for Romeo and Juliet.According to the passage “Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence's cell;There stays a husband to make you
The nurse is in the play all the time. The nurse cares for Juliet. She
The nurse has been working with us since the birth of Juliet, she knows the number of hairs on her head, she could “tell her age unto an hour” (Act 1 Scene 3, 12). Oh, my poor Juliet! Moreover, the Nurse caused Juliet distraught. It pains me to say that in her time of suffering, Juliet realised that the woman whom she relied on most wasn’t there for her. Some of the last words, Juliet ever heard from the nurse were “I think it best you married with the County” (Act 3 Scene 5, 217) which broke her soul. Ultimately, the nurse is to blame for Juliet’s death. The Nurse was rather boastful about her her opinions on love which were often risque and bawdy. The idealistic love she set for my daughter was sexually explicit. When planning the discreet wedding of the two she tempted Juliet to “fetch a ladder” by which Romeo “must climb a bird’s nest soon,” she said she “shall bear the burden soon at night” (Act 2, Scene 5, 73-76). The Nurse never shared Juliet's idea of love; for her, love is a temporary, so she wouldn’t understand the intense and spiritual love Romeo and Juliet shared. Juliet longed for a relationship much like one between me and her father, but the nurse did not understand this. And with this the Nurse encouraged Juliet to do everything she knew was wrong. The Nurse is subject to the whims of society, and was a lousy role model for
Although the nurse sometimes shows herself to be inappropriate, she proves to be a very nurturing figure because she is always supportive and is there for those she cares for the most. The nurse can be identified as a very caring person. Before Romeo tells the nurse the plans for the marriage, the nurse makes herself clears as she warns Romeo, “if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill/ thing to be offered to any gentlewoman and a very weak dealing” (II.IV. 146-147). The nurse is concerned for Juliet’s well being and proves it in her statement to Romeo.
In spite of this, is certain that the Nurse played a serious role in encouraging the lovers? relationship to blossom. Instead of advising Juliet on the dangers of a love that is ?too rash, too unadvis?d, to sudden?, she continues to place Romeo upon a pedestal, proclaiming his ?face be better than any man?s, his leg excels all men?s, his [body parts] are past compare?. Her haste for Juliet to ?hie hence to Friar Lawrence? cell?, and preparations for ?cords? to be brought for Romeo to ?convoy [to Juliet] in the secret night?, are gestures that illustrate her desire for their relationship to progress quickly. Therefore by offering her approval of Romeo, the Nurse inadvertedly strengthens Juliet?s devo...
The Nurse possesses many qualities. For example, she is very hearty towards Juliet, kind, protective, compassionate and a loving lady. In some parts of the play The Nurse can be long-winded, insensitive, arrogant, insecure and stupid at times but she loves Juliet very much, partially as she imagines that Juliet is a substitute for her own daughter Susan. She has a bawdy sense of humor, which brings out the naturalness of sex and childbearing. This is seen when she tells Juliet to look for love, - “Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days';. This displays a realistic attitude to love. Such bawdy realism is, like the ribaldry of Mercutio and company, a contrast with the tender, romantic and passionate feelings of Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse is a practical but rather stupid woman at times. She loves Juliet like her own child. Throughout the play The Nurse is very talkative. She will usually do what she believes is right or what Juliet wants, like secretly meeting with Romeo and arranging the wedding of Romeo and Juliet.
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the nurse is Juliet’s lower-class nurse. She is a loquacious, insolent trusting but yet dishonest character in the play. The only character that Juliet trusts and usually is seen cracking dirty jokes