Romeo And Juliet Nurse And Friar Compare And Contrast

Shakespeare is remembered for lots of different plays, like Hamlet, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet. Inside Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, there were a lot of great characters, like the Nurse and Friar, who both had big personalities which crossed each other inside a way and both took place inside the overall tragedy.

The Nurse and Friar are both very different characters, but inside a special way, you are able to find the similarities inside them as characters once you dig past the big picture. The Nurse’s main characteristic is how caring she is for Juliet. For example, in Act 4, the Nurse tells Juliet to forget about Romeo since he had gotten banished out of the town Verona, and the Nurse would keep saying how Juliet

should just move on and marry Paris and how much better her life would be with him. This shows how the Nurse is caring for Juliet on how she is looking for the best for Juliet, and does not want anything poor to happen to her.

On the other hand, the Friars most dominant trait is how he is a major problem solver. Inside Act 4, scene 1, the Friar helps Juliet find a way to end up with Romeo for a happily ever after type marriage, the Friar says “Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/ And this distilling liquor drink thou off” (Act 4, Scene 1, lines 95-96). This shows the Friars way to problem solve by how he had went out of his way so he would look like a star and the couple would be happy together. Even though the Nurse and Friar have completely different dominant traits, they still have some similarities once you look into it. For example how they both want the very best for Romeo and Juliet inside the beginning of the book, like when the Friar and Romeo were talking about Juliet inside Act 3, Scene 3, and the Nurse had came in and told Romeo to go comfort Juliet since he is leaving

soon. This shows how they care for both Romeo and Juliet on how they both had been trying hard to get them together for them to stay one last night together. You might think the Nurse and Friar are both completely opposites of characters, but despite their differences, they are also very similar once you dig deeper into them as characters.
The Nurse and Friar are both huge problems on how Romeo and Juliet had ended.

Both the Nurse and Friar bring several different emotions onto the table, for example, how the Nurse is a big bundle of fun, and a humorous character overall, like inside Act 2, scene 5, when the Nurse was just coming back from talking to Romeo about the marriage plans. “Lord, how head aches! What a head have I!/ It beats as it would fall into twenty pieces./ My back o’ t’ other side! Ah, my back, my back” ( Act 2, scene 5, lines 51-53). This shows what humor the Nurse brings into the story, as she teases Juliet about how she must not care about her. On the next hand, the Friar is more the character that makes the play interesting and moving along, in example, when he tells Romeo to say his goodbyes to Juliet then to leave right away in the morning to Mantua. This shows how the Friar keeps the play moving along by how he tells Romeo exactly what to do or else the play would have been never ending. Both the Nurse and Friar are big parts of how the book had ended, for example in Act 4, scene 1, the Friar had sold Juliet poison that would make her sleep for a few days then she would wake up to Romeo on her side. But really she did wake up to Romeo on her side, but dead. This is one way how the Friar could've made the end of the book end like it did since he hadn't planned everything out right. But a way the Nurse could've changed the book was inside Act 4, when she told Juliet to move onto Paris,

this made Juliet frantic and stressed about how she wanted Romeo and not Paris. The Nurse could've made the ending end like that on how she made Juliet feel if she hadn't went out and made her feel like that, Juliet might've not went to the Friar and everyone could be alive. The Nurse and Friar had changed the book inside several different ways, for how they acted to what they had actually done inside the book.
“The Nurse is weak of will. She is unable to decide who is better husband for Juliet: Paris or Romeo” (BestNotes.com) Inside Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare you're able to tell how the Nurse is weak of will on how she keeps flipping sides from Romeo to Paris, when the Friar on the other hand knows Romeo is best for Juliet. The Nurse and Friar have similarities and differences inside their personalities, and are big parts of the ending of the book. If the Nurse and Friar were both not inside the book Romeo and Juliet it would be a completely different book.