nurse

• 'i have my wish' her wish is for juliet to marry
• 'no truly sure not a penny' nurse wont take money from romeo and does this because she cares
• 'if ye shall lead her to fools paradise ' warning to romeo 


  'leads her ' implies that nurse still expects juliet to adhere to patriarchal standards it is ironic because juliet mainly acts on lust. she is non sterotypical as she threatens romeo. 'fools paradise' is to seduce
• 'desire has some confidence with you'


  malapropism the nurse means conference buts uses the wrong word
• nurse and juliet relationship weakens over the play


  juliet pushes nurse away when she fakes her death 'i pray thee leave me to myself tonight'
• the ending of the play hows the tragic social order as nurse is the only character not there the nurse and the nuturing comedy she offers is gone forever.
• 'faith i can tell her age in an hour' nurse knows juliet intimately, blank verse shows there relation ups her status
• Prose


  Ordinary written language without a rhyme scheme or specific metrical structure
• Rhymed verse


  Lines of verse which rhyme, may be in iambic pentameter or another rhyme scheme
• Blank verse


  • Used by upper class characters and nobility
  • Signifies importance of a character
• The nurse is a lower class character who speaks in blank verse in Act 1 Scene 3
• Nurse


  Represents nurturing and comedy in the play
• Nurse's role in the plot


  1. Tells Juliet that Romeo proposes

  2. Takes the rope ladder for Romeo to ascend to Juliet's chamber

  3. Delivers messages between Romeo and Juliet

  4. Warns Juliet when her mother is about to enter

  5. Stands up to Capulet
• Nurse's malapropisms


  • "I will tell her sir that you do protest"
  • "I desire some confidence with you"
• The nurse is absent from the final scene of the play
• Nurse's importance


  She has more lines of dialogue than anyone except Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence
• Nurse: '"I can tell her age unto an hour"'