The Friar Lawrence acts as a parental guide for Romeo, while the Nurse acts as a parental guide for Juliet. Both the Friar and the Nurse help the lovers, and they are both known more by their social roles as Friar and Nurse rather than by their actual names. Most importantly, they act as paternal and maternal influences that replace the couples' biological parents.
Friar Lawrence is a wise, rational, and spiritual figure who advises Romeo and Juliet with good intentions. The Nurse, on the other hand, is a bawdy, comical character who offers practical advice and serves as a confidante to Juliet. They both care deeply for Romeo and Juliet but have different approaches to helping them.
How are Friar Lawrence and the nurse different?
They are both adults in whom Romeo and Juliet confide.
The Nurse and Friar Lawrence knew about it before anyone else because the Friar performed the marriage and the Nurse was Juliet's close confidant so she told her everything.
It was both Romeo's and Juliet's idea to marry eachother.
Juliet, Romeo, Tybalt, Nurse, Benvolio Or . . . Juliet, Romeo, Friar Lawrence, Nurse, Capulet Or . . . Juliet, Romeo, Friar Lawrence, Capulet, Tybalt Or . . . Juliet, Romeo, Capulet, Mercutio, Tybalt Or basically Romeo and Juliet and any three of Nurse, Friar, Capulet, Mercutio, or Tybalt.
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At Friar Lawrence's
Killing himself
At various times, Benvolio, Mercutio, the Nurse, Friar Lawrence, Romeo's father, Friar Lawrence's friend Friar John and Romeo's servant Balthazar all try to do things which they think will help Romeo. And Juliet too, of course.
they say she must marry or move out.
Romeo's advisor is Friar Lawrence and Juliet's is the nurse. However, when the nurse counsels her to commit bigamy, she goes to Friar Lawrence for help. The friar proves to be a broken reed, taking inadequate steps to advise Romeo of his plan and abandoning Juliet in the tomb which allows her to commit suicide.
She helped deliver messages and a ring between Romeo and Juliet.
Juliet and the nurse were very close. she knew juliet and romeo were in love and she helped arange juliet and romeo's wedding with friar lawrence (priest who married them). after the nurse tells juliet to marry paris, juliet gets angry at the nurse for betraying her, and promises to never be close to her again. she then goes to frair lawrence to see if he could get her out of marrying paris, and he hands her the poison to put her in a coma.
Romeo, of course, but also Paris, the Nurse, Friar Lawrence and, in their own way, her parents.