Role Models in Romeo and Juliet Whether it is the 21st century or the 16th century, people need to be inspired by other people; they need role models. Role models can be anyone that demonstrates admirable qualities that people can look up to in order to better themselves and those around them. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, he depicts good role modelling during the shakespearean era by creating characters with positive traits and motives. Shakespeare portrays positive role modelling through many characters such as Friar Laurence, Nurse and Prince. Friar Lawrence is a good role model and also a mentor to Romeo by advising Romeo to act with more deliberation, but also to have more restraint. The Nurse acts as a mother figure in …show more content…
She is showing her caring traits and trying to do anything to keep Juliet happy and keep the too lovers together. When the Nurse is going to get Romeo, she tells him “For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and / stand up. Why should you fall into so deep a moan?”(3.3.89-90). The Nurse is trying to tell that Juliet isn't feeling well and she needs him to be by her side as she lost her cousin Tybalt. After all the kind things that the Nurse did with Romeo and Juliet, the audience experiences the Nurse’s caring and motherly traits and how much of a role model she …show more content…
It all started due to the lack of role models surrounding them. Romeo and Juliet’s parents were extremely unsupportive and really poor examples of role models. The only good mentoring supplied to Romeo and Juliet was limited to three role models, Friar Laurence, Nurse and Prince. However, these role models deceive and betray Romeo and Juliet resulting in unpreventable suicides. Therefore, the lack of mentoring from parents and role models in Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet” are essentially the cause of the extremely tragic result of two young lovers’
The nurse's key capacity inside the play is to go aboutas a go-between for Romeo and Juliet and is the maincharacter other than Minister Laurence to know about their wedding. The nurse, in spite of being a worker in the Capulet family unit, has a part comparable to that of Juliet's mom and views Juliet as her own particular girl. The nurse's association with Juliet centers consideration around Juliet's age. In Juliet's first scene, the nurse over and over affirms that Juliet has not yet had her fourteenth birthday celebration. As opposed to Juliet's childhood, the nurse is old and appreciates grumbling about her a throbbing painfulness. Juliet's dissatisfaction at relying upon the nurse as her courier is utilized to comic impact in Act II, Scene 5 when Juliet is compelled to tune in to the nurse's ailments while attempting to coax from her thenews of her wedding designs: The nurse, as Mercutio, loves to talk finally. She frequently rehashes herself, and her indelicate references to the sexual part of affection set the optimistic love of Romeo and Juliet separated from
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.
Tragic accidents occurred in a world where two young teenagers met and fell in love. Many viewers have seen the story of Romeo and Juliet and numerous people have heard of it. Most of them do not know that the love story of Romeo and Juliet is very tragic and disastrous. Juliet’s parents are to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they were unconcerned, controlling, and resenting of Juliet.
Throughout Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, there is an overlaying presence of the typical roles that men and women were supposed to play. During Elizabethan times there was a major difference between the way men and women were supposed to act. Men typically were supposed to be masculine and powerful, and defend the honor. Women, on the other hand, were supposed to be subservient to their men in their lives and do as ever they wished. In Romeo and Juliet the typical gender roles that men and women were supposed to play had an influence on the fate of their lives.
“An honour! Were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck’d wisdom from thy teat” (1.3. 452). Her relationship with the Nurse was the opposite of the one she shared with her true parents and this lead Juliet to going to her Nurse whenever she had a predicament. This was counter-productive because these predicaments that she went to her Nurse for help lead to her dying because it was the Nurse’s obligation to side with Juliet and do what she was asked, even if it opposed what her parents would have approved. These jobs that Juliet set her Nurse out to complete were rebellious of what her parents would have wanted her to be doing. It was still a healthier relationship than the one that Juliet shared with her mother and father, which was significant considering the fact that she was a teenager when she faced all the issues that came with her forbidden love.
One of the most important relationships in Romeo and Juliet is the relationship between the Nurse and Juliet. In Act 1, Scene 3 we are introduced to the most vivid character of the play, the Nurse. With her speech that begins "Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen." (1.3.16-48), we learn that she nursed
Thesis: In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, Nurse causes problems due to dishonesty; however, she is victimized when other characters take advantage of her.
In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there is a certain contrast between the young and the adults, although their actions represent the same foolish qualities: haste and thoughtlessness. Two young star-crossed lovers receive help from two adults who recognize their love, unlike everyone else who is covered under a haze of hate. But essentially, this help is what leads to the deaths of many. Romeo and Juliet’s hasty choice to marry might seem like the most irrational decision and the biggest mistake of all, but really, if Friar Lawrence and The Nurse didn’t aid their reckless actions or if old Capulet and Montague resolved their pointless argument, this story might not have been entitled to such a grave ending.
From the day we are born, we look up to our parents. No matter what we do or what we say we are always looking for their approval. All we want is them to look at you and be proud and say you did good. We go to them for many things; love, closure, advice, and most importantly to be a role model. Although, we don’t always go to them because we see that it isn’t the best decision or we don’t feel comfortable. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there were adults in the play that should have been role models for Romeo and Juliet, but they turned out to be corrupted and selfish. These adults were Lord and Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and Friar Lawrence.
Teenagers are easily influenced by their environment and the people around them. In William Shakesphere’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters fell dangerously in love at an extremely young age. Not only did they find themselves instantly in love, but they were also easily influenced by everyone in their environment. The one character who was most responsible for influencing Romeo was Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence single handedly was involved with many events that led to a tragic ending. From secretly marrying an underaged couple, to hiding a fugitive in his cell, and even creating a dangerous plan without Romeo’s consent or knowledge, Friar Laurence was the most responsible for influencing Romeo, and causing the traumatic downfall.