How Does The Nurse Influence Romeo And Juliet

A lot of people would consider parents to be the most important and essential people of their life. Unless you’re Romeo or Juliet, Romeo and Juliet do not experience the parental love or the guidance of a grown up from their parents, but from people who care about them just as much. Even though Romeo and Juliet are executors of their own fate and masters of their own lives, The Nurse and Friar Lawrence are important parental figures to the teenage lovers, necessary additions to the play, and significant perspectives for the audience in this tragedy. Juliet’s nurse is not just a nanny and a caregiver, but also a confidante and an ally against her own parents who are constantly plotting to marry her off to someone she does not want to be with. The Nurse acts as if she was Juliet’s own mother, because of her own child’s death at a young age.

In Romeo and Juliet, to what extent is the Nurse to blame for the tragedy?

They tell eachother everything. Most importantly, they can trust one another. Juliet turns to the Nurse for every problem she has. She depends on the Nurse to be there for her, especially in times of struggles and her love life. Throughout her love story with Romeo, the Nurse plays a very active role in Juliet’s life. We see the Nurse helping her to sneak away with Romeo but on the other side, we see the Nurse telling Juliet to obey her family orders, which relates back to the conflict between a parent figure and child.

I blame The Nurse ,because she always want Juliet to date a gentleman. She was the messenger for Juliet and she the one put the rope ladder at her palace ,so that Romeo can make love to Juliet. She was the only one to know that Romeo and Juliet are married secretly at Friar Lawrence church. The Nurse should of let Capulet and Lady Capulet know that Juliet is in love with Romeo not Paris and Juliet is married to Romeo. Also, she should of let Paris know that Juliet is not in love with with Paris ,so that Paris won’t be in love with Juliet.

It was a shock to Juliet that she didn’t support as before. The nurse played as an important role to her, however it wasn’t how Juliet was expected it was going to happen. Juliet was left on her own to make some very important decisions at the age of 15. I believe that if the Nurse had been around to help Juliet things may have turned out differently. Strangely, she advised Juliet to forget about Romeo and marry Paris, betraying Juliet’s trust by advocating a false marriage: “I think it best you married with the County. O, he’s a lovely gentleman. Romeo’s a dish clout to him”(3.5.218). Juliet can’t believe that the Nurse offers such a course of action after the Nurse praised Romeo and helped bring the couple together. She could not have gone to Lady Capulet or Lord Capulet, because they would not have understood.

The Character of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet The Nurse has a very important role in the play, being Juliet’s closest friend and helping her in her illicit relationship with Romeo. Her position in the Capulet household is superior to that of a normal servant. She is very familiar when she talks to Lady Capulet, and at times oversteps the mark. She talks about the daughter she once had and lost, and it is evident that Juliet is like a replacement and the Nurse lavishes all her motherly love and protectiveness on Juliet.

Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet, one of the main protagonists, Juliet, is forced to deal with a great amount of conflict, whether it is external conflict or internal. Juliet has conflict with many people excluding herself, such as with her father and mother, with the Nurse… Equally, she is conflicted on the inside on many occasions.

The Nurse is a good friend of Juliet´s and also played a big role in raising her. The nurse wanted the best for juliet and for her to be happy therefore, she encouraged her to get married. ¨Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away..¨(2.4, 185) This showed how the nurse knew how dangerous it was for the people to find out they were married yet, she still allowed the marriage and told them to betray their parents and keep it secret. The nurse also sent Romeo letters for Juliet to keep them in contact. ¨There stays a husband to make you a wife. Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks.¨(2.5). This shows that the nurse had talked to romeo. Although, Friar is the one who brought the idea of

Romeo and Juliet From William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. The most important theme is love, specifically, love at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. I chose to write about the Nurse because she is the personal servant, guardian and former wet nurse of Juliet Capulet, and has been with Juliet since she was born. This character played a strong part in allowing Romeo and Juliet’s relationship to grow and their passion to become stronger because she sends the letters to Romeo and helped them arrange their secret marriage. She also affected the tragic ending because she did not intervene when Juliet was to marry Paris. Because of the fight between the Capulets and the Montagues,

Throughout the course of the play, the Nurse’s job is to play messenger and relay Juliet’s messages to Romeo or take messages sent by Romeo back to Juliet. Her role becomes evident during Act 2, Scene 4, when she says, “Pray you, sir, a word. And as I told you, my young lady bid me inquire you out. What she bade me say, I will keep to myself.” As being the two lovers’ means of interaction in broad daylight, it is the Nurse who makes the wedding a reality. The role of messenger is increasingly significant as the play progresses because with each message that Juliet entrusts to the Nurse, the harsher the betrayal becomes for Juliet in Act 3. Moreover, her efforts as messenger also allows Shakespeare to use the Nurse as a vector to foreshadow future events within the play. In the same scene, the Nurse recalls that Juliet said, “Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?” The foreshadowing allows Shakespeare to push the plot along by hint the direction of the tragedy. By comparing Romeo and rosemary, which is symbolic for lovers and death, Juliet is suggesting that she’ll take her love for Romeo to her death. And ironically, the Nurse has a role in Juliet’s death as

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two young lovers seperate families have a long feud that disturbs the city of Verona by their often violent conflicts. The two main characters, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, end up suffering a horrible tragedy that is influenced by many actions and people, a lot relating to their families. By the end of the play you get to see that some of Romeo and Juliet’s actions may have been impulsive and not needed, but in my opinion didn’t effect the play as much as the other problems surrounding them. I disagree that the tragedy that destroys Romeo and Juliet is their own fault, due to the numerous other actions that intervene with their relationship such as their families hostility

In Romeo and Juliet we have seen The Nurse play the role of the mother, a friend to Juliet, and a matchmaker. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. This story is about two lovers and how they cannot be together due to a family feud. Throughout the story the Nurse shows her characteristics as both a mother and a friend and towards the ending they show us that she is a bad matchmaker. The Nurse would be a good mother because she is always there for Juliet, a great friend who looks out for Juliet, and would not be considered as a great matchmaker.

Friar Laurence and the nurse are the only parental figures to Romeo and Juliet. Both headstrong characters who guide them both through their short lives. In the play Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare himself is a play that goes through the short life of Romeo and Juliet. Both of these kids in rich, rivaling, families, they do not have parental guidance like most people do. So they both have the character of the nurse and the priest.

In any circumstance, a child’s decision to take their own life can be due to many motives; however, one prominent factor is not having someone to turn to for advice or support. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the tragic demise of both Romeo and Juliet was linked to the absence of a parental figure in Juliet’s life. The Nurse, who had primarily raised Juliet and had become her main advocate, abandoned her in her most vulnerable moments, leaving her to take drastic measures to escape her problems. Through allowing and abetting Juliet to marry Romeo, keeping her secret, and ultimately turning on Juliet, it becomes evident the Nurse was the primary cause of the deaths.

Being in two families that have two totally opposite views can cause a chaos especially, when a love story happens between the rivals. Verona, where the play takes place, introduces two main characters; Romeo and Juliet that are two star crossed lovers that are restricted from loving each other. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight at the Capulet’s party, however after learning that their families are enemies, they compromised to keep their love a secret. In the midst of secretly loving each other, Juliet’s nurse was their main helper of their love story. I believe that the nurse was the most memorable character portrayed because the nurse was their communication key, the one who supported their love, and the person who opened up a way for Romeo and Juliet to meet up without using death as an option.