Nurse , friar

• What are 7 quotes for the Nurse?

  -"Faith, I can tell her age unto the hour"

  -"lead her in a fool's paradise"

  -"I'll find Romeo to comfort you"

  -"God in heaven bless her!"

  -"You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so"

  -"O woe, O woeful, woeful, woeful day!"

  -"O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!"
• Describe "Faith, I can tell her age unto the hour"


  -Act 1, Sc 3

  -hyperbole to describe the ability to guess a woman's age with great accuracy
• Describe "lead her in a fool's paradise"

  -Act 2, Sc 4

  -Idiom: in this case, the phrase means to deceive someone into thinking that they are happy when they are not
• Describe "God in heaven bless her!"

  -Act 3, Sc 5

  -Exclamation: in this case, the speaker is expressing a strong emotion of gratitude and appreciation for someone else
• Describe "I'll find Romeo to comfort you"


  -Act 3, Sc 2

  -allusion.: the Nurse alludes to Romeo as a source of comfort for Juliet
• Describe "You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so"


  -Act 3, Sc 5

  -Irony: the Nurse is blaming Lord Capulet for rating Juliet too highly when in reality she thinks that he has rated her too low
• Describe "O woe, O woeful, woeful, woeful day!"


  -Act 4, Sc 5

  -Repetition: emphasizes the Nurse's grief and sadness over Juliet's death

  -Hyperbole: exaggerates the Nurse's feelings of sadness and despair
• Describe "O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!"

  -Act 4, Sc 5

  -Repetition: which emphasizes the nurse's sorrow and despair
• These violent delights have violent ends


  combines to proverbs to emphasise each points. figures of repetition and antithesis foreshadow ending.
• And yet not so fall; so light is vanity


  Creates exemplum from his conceit of a lover buoyancy and from wordplay. Reveals his attitude toward Juliet.
• "til holy church incorporate two in one"


  shows his religious views and how he believes that through marriage the families will be united by God.
• "Thou art wedded to calamity"


  Romeo is bound to disaster. This emphasises the importance of fate and that there is no escaping destiny.
• "be patient for the world is broad and wide"


  One of the only people to put the situation into perspective and implying that this isn't worth dying over.
• Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art;

  Thy tears are womanish.


  this comment degrades women- the friar is sexist?
• But a form of wax

  idea of romeo being moulded and shaped by the hand of god to be the way he is but is showing him in a negative light which could mean that romeo was a mistake and but a problem in Gods eye.
• "Come, is the bride ready to go to church?"


  Friar is acting like he doesn't know anything if Juliet plan to play dead despite conceptualising it
• The heavens do lour upon you for some i'll; move them no more by crossing the highwill


  implying that is was meant for Juliet to pass away. Give small threat by stating the heavens are aware of their sins so the mustn't resist to follow his instructions for planning the funeral
• fear comes upon me

  not gonna according to plan but the friar has a feeling something has gone wrong- dramatic irony.
• A greater power than we can contradict


  Implying that God was the cause of this unavoidable tragedy
• Come i'll dispose of thee


  Trying to cover his tracks
• "Myself condemned and myself excused"


  Two verbs contradict each other. Feels a great amount of guilt because he has don't the most to result in this tragedy