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The Nurse is one of the few characters in the play who explicitly wish for Juliet’s happiness. In addition to being emotionally supportive, the Nurse also works actively to ensure Juliet’s good fortune, as when she serves as the go-between that enables Juliet’s secret courtship with Romeo.
The Nurse discovers Juliet under the spell of Friar Laurence's potion in act four, scene five, and the grief of her death as seriously as she mourned Tybalt. She is, finally, present at the real deathbed of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris, though speechless.
As she waits for the Nurse to come back from her secret meeting with Romeo, Juliet bemoans how long it's taking. Finally, the Nurse returns. But before she gives Juliet the good news, she decides to have a little fun with her charge, and goes on and on about her aching bones.
Juliet’s relationship with her nurse is both complex and comical; though often treated like a friend and confidant, at the end of the day, the nurse is forced to realize that she’s ultimately little more than hired help.
The Nurse informs him that her mother is the lady of the house, and that she herself is Juliet's nurse, and that "he that can lay hold of her / Shall have the chinks" (1.5.116-117). Then, as Romeo is leaving, Juliet sends the Nurse to find out who he is.
3 paź 2024 · Juliet’s nurse is a servant in the Capulet family who wet nursed Juliet as an infant and has raised her ever since. After the death of her infant daughter, Susan, the Nurse treats...
Juliet anxiously waits for the Nurse to return. When she finally does, she takes as long as she can to actually report Romeo’s message, milking every excuse she can to delay, until she finally tells Juliet to go to Friar Lawrence’s and be married.
