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the naturalness of sex and childbearing. This is seen when she tells Juliet to look for love, - “Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days”. This displays a realistic attitude to love. Such bawdy realism is, like the ribaldry of Mercutio and company, a contrast with the tender, romantic and passionate feelings of Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse is a practical but rather stupid woman at times. She loves Juliet like her own child. Throughout the play The Nurse is very talkative. She will usually do what she believes is right or what Juliet wants, like secretly meeting with Romeo and arranging the wedding of Romeo and Juliet.
Throughout the play the relationship between Juliet and The Nurse always shows. The Nurse has a playful as well as a caring relationship with Juliet. Even though The Nurse maybe a servant in the Capulet household, The Nurse has a far more superior role to an ordinary servant. This is seen in Act 1 Scene 3 when Lady Capulet sent The Nurse out and them ...

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is not very sensitive for a woman and in the early part of the play she comes across as a comic figure. Certainly she provides considerable amusement in act 1 scene 3 when Lady Capulet is discussing the possibility of Juliet marrying Paris. In this scene the play expresses how close The Nurse is to Juliet, when for no reason The Nurse begins to talk about Susan. She explains that she is with god, and how this event has brought her even closer to Juliet.

The whole Marriage concept took Juliet by surprise; even though she is only the age of 13 she was extremely excited. Lady Capulet treats the proposal with a degree of strained delicacy; The Nurse on the other hand offers a far ...

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