Explain how the relationship between Juliet & the nurse changes through the play.

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Explain how the relationship between Juliet & the nurse changes through the play. “ Romeo & Juliet”

By William Shakespeare.

In the early part of the play we see how close the bond between the nurse and Juliet are.

 

Nurse: “Now by my maidenhead at twelve years old, I bade her come. What, lamb! What, ladybird! God forbid! Where’s this Girl? What, Juliet!”

We know how close the nurse and Juliet are as the nurse has taken on the role of being Juliet’s mother. The nurse breast-feeds Juliet as a baby and the nurse and Juliet become more adapted to each other. By this happening love is created as the nurse brings up Juliet. Juliet has been brought up by the nurse and there for Juliet now trusts the nurse with all of her secrets.

Nurse: “Well, Susan is with god; shes way to good for me…Tis since the earthquake now eleven years, and she (Juliet) was weaned… for I had laid wormwood to my dug…when it did taste the wormwood on the nipple of my dug and felt it bitter…and fall out with the dug”

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On the mention of Juliet’s marriage, the nurse talking about honour bestowed upon Juliet.

Nurse: “An honour. Were not I thire only nurse, I would say thou hads’t sucked wisdom from thy teat”

The nurse is aware of Lord and Lady Capulet’s wishes that their Juliet to be married to country Paris. It is seen to them as a fire match. The nurse sees country Paris as a “man of wax” and the nurse suggests with marriage “Women grow by man” both physically and in status. The closeness to Juliet is such that knowing the family’s that she ...

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