Why does Juliet believe that the nurse betrayed her?

Answer 1

Finally, because of the nurse's disagreement with Juliet, Juliet loses her trust with the nurse. After the nurse's betrayal, Juliet doesn't have anyone else to trust and express her emotions to. Juliet doesn't trust the nurse anymore because, after the nurse's backstab, Juliet kicked her out of her room for the first time. She doesn't have anyone to trust because; the nurse betrayed her, her mother and father agree with the marriage, her cousin Tybalt died, Romeo is banished from Verona and she won't tell her personal life to a servant. The only person she might be able to trust is Friar Lawrence, who brings up the thought of poison and faking a death.

Answer 2

Juliet beilieves the nurdsse betrayed her after Romeo was banashed for Mantua. Juliet was FORCED to marry Paris and she was explaining her feelings to the nurse, when the nurse said she should forget about Romeo and act like he is dead and just marry Paris, which Juliet did not see as an option.

Answer 3

The Nurse is one of the funniest characters in the play and one of the most disturbing. She and Juliet have what seems to be a gossiping, pillow-fighting sort of relationship at the beginning of the play. The Nurse, along with Friar Laurence, is one of the facilitators of Juliet's relationship with Romeo. She plays the role of messenger and it is her idea to bring Romeo to Juliet even after he has been banished. But when Juliet needs her most - after her parents order her to marry Paris - the Nurse betrays her. Romeo is as good as dead, the Nurse tells Juliet, and she had better forget him and marry Paris. Is the nurse as responsible for Juliet's death? Maybe. Or, as one oh-so-subtle production suggested, definitely: in this production, at the final scene, when the Prince says that some will be punished, a noose dropped from the ceiling and swung in front of the Nurse.

But why does the Nurse betray Juliet? There are two basic arguments. The first is that the Nurse really believes everything that she says when she tells Juliet:

Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,

That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;

Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.

Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,

I think it best you married with the county.

O, he's a lovely gentleman!

Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,

Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye

As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,

I think you are happy in this second match,

For it excels your first: or if it did not,

Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,

As living here and you no use of him. (3.5.5)

As this argument goes, the Nurse simply does not understand that Juliet's love for Romeo is the real thing, and not some childish infatuation. She thinks Juliet can easily move on. If you're feeling a little judgmental, you could say this attitude is both callous and unperceptive. Her dirty-minded way of looking at love cannot comprehend a love like Juliet's. There's also the possibility that the Nurse doesn't want to lose Juliet to an uncertain future with Romeo in Mantua. Selfishness might play a role in wanting her beloved Juliet to stay in Verona and marry Paris - and doubtlessly bring the Nurse with her when she moves to Paris's house. Regardless, the Nurse's comic character becomes almost monstrous in the way she treats Juliet's love. Telling Juliet that Romeo is as good as dead is pretty mean.

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Answer 4

The Nurse allowed the two to secretly get married and assisted in bringing them together as well as keeping Juliet's secret. However, once Romeo was banished the Nurse told Juliet to marry Paris, and Juliet stopped trusting her.

This meant that only two people knew Juliet wasn't really dead, the Friar and Juliet. If Juliet had trusted the Nurse then it is possible the outcome would have been different as they may have been able to take another path.

Answer 5

Because the nurse had sent away Romeo