The nurse may be putting Juliet off because she is trying to protect her from potential harm or because she is hesitant to reveal sensitive information. She could also be feeling torn between her loyalty to Juliet and her obligations to Juliet's family.
The answer is both, Yes and No. The term 'Nurse' that Shakespeare uses in Romeo and Juliet, does NOT refer to what we, in modern times, call a Nurse (as in a Medical Nurse). Another meaning of 'Nurse' is a Lady in Waiting (a Valet for a woman) or more simply put, a Woman's Personal Servant/Maid. Typically speaking ALL, and usually ONLY, wealthy women had a 'Nurse' or 'Nurse-maid' at that time. But that is not the meaning of Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. This Nurse was Juliet's wet-nurse, which means that Juliet fed as a baby from the breasts of the Nurse rather than from her mother. The nurse remembers in Act 1 Scene 3 that it was eleven years since Juliet was weaned (stopped breastfeeding) because the Nurse put bitter wormwood on her nipple to make it taste bad to Juliet. She has continued as a servant since but is remembered as a Nurse and has a special relationship with Juliet.
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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.
She assists them in their secret marriage. She passes some messages between the two characters when they are unable to see each other. Romeo also had the nurse tell Juliet to devise a plan to get out of the house and go to the confessions at the abby in the afternoon. He then payed her. The nurse also helped with the rope ladder that Juliet escaped with. She took the ladder for Juliet to use when Romeo's men later came with it. She aided Juliet with her escape to be wed. The nurse was the personal servant and guardian of Juliet, since Juliet was born. She's a wet nurse, meaning she breast fed Juliet.
The two stories are:That when Juliet was being weaned, the nurse put wormwood on her nipple.Juliet once fell flat on her face and the Nurse's husband (who was a dirty-minded old so-and-so) said that when she gets older she will fall on her back (so men can have sex with her). Juliet, who was too young to know what he was talking about, stopped crying and said "Ay", which the Nurse appears to have found hilarious.
The nurse in the play Romeo and Juliet has a motherly relationship with Juliet despite being the family's servant. According to the nurse, Juliet had yet to reach her 14th birthday while she secretly made wedding plans to marry Romeo.
She asks Friar Lawrence for help. He was the one to give her the potion that will put her to sleep for 42 hours.
Death was much commoner in the days before good healthcare, clean water and healthy food, and when there were no antibiotics to combat illnesses. All of Juliet's brothers and sisters have died, and the Nurse lost her own daughter Susan (who was Juliet's age). The nurse doesn't think anything in particular when she finds Juliet dead - people died all the time in the old days, it was nothing special.
i was first asking this question but i knew the answer so kind off stupid. i know but anyway. the nurse is like the real mother to Juliet because she is the one that actually raised her all her life. to Juliet she is still a nurse but also a friend to conversate with from time to time. my teacher told us that she is some sort of "comic relief" on the Capulet side. i don't know about that, you could put that is you want but if you don't its not like i would know. GO CHAMPS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (Freshman's) December 8, 2010
The quote "Put up your swords, you know not what you do" is spoken by Benvolio in Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. He is trying to stop the fight between the Montagues and Capulets.
He has come to put flowers on Juliet's grave.
Yes. You have to take her off the nest and put her into a separate cage to unbrood her.