The Nurse In Romeo And Juliet

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In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, we are introduced to two important characters. Juliet, a beautiful young girl, and her low class worker, The Nurse. The Nurse has taken care of Juliet since birth and cares about her tremendously. Juliet is a young Capulet girl who falls in love with Romeo. Juliet relies on The Nurse in many instances. The Nurse being experienced in life and her views on love directly contradicts Juliets juvenility and belief in true love. The Nurse, being one of the elder characters, has an older outlook on life and shares advice with Juliet. A piece of advice she shares is to forget about Romeo and marry Paris because he’s a more attractive man, and this specific action would please her father ( Shakespeare 453). The Nurse also views love as physical appearance. “Though his face be better than any man’s, yet his legs excels all men’s…” (Shakespeare 417). She is also from a lower class and doesn’t talk in the same way as the Juliet, because The Nurse is not as proper. She is also the messenger for Romeo and Juliet. “ I sent The Nurse at nine o’clock. Maybe she can’t find him…” (Shakespeare 416) …show more content…

She is immediately love stricken and extremely loyal,“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from the battlements of any tower, or walk in thievish ways , or bid me lurk where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears…”(Shakespeare 453). Not only is she refusing to marry Paris, Juliet will only marry Rome or proceed to end her life. We know that Juliet is young (Shakespeare 383), because of this she is rather naïve. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet…”(Shakespeare 404). This implies that she genuinely believes that their relationship will work, despite the family feud which is the root of all the

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