The nurse gives Romeo a ring from Juliet to show him that she still loves him. Look at lines in Act 2, Scene 5. How does the nurse describe Romeo? She passes on the message, after some teasing, and makes sure that Juliet has an excuse to visit Friar Lawrence, so she can marry her Romeo in secret.
The nurse is partly to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because she helps Juliet deceive her parents and because she enables Juliet to see Romeo. Friar Laurence continued to make things even worse by lying to Lord Capulet in helping Juliet fake her death. The final example of loyalty portrayed in the text is by the nurse to Juliet.
The nurse helps Juliet by giving her wise and loyal advice as well as helping her in her plan to marry Romeo by being their messenger. The Nurse claims to be tired from her journey and prolongs telling her the news. How does the Nurse feel about the marriage? The Nurse is in favor of the marriage and feels that Romeo is handsome as well as polite. Lady Capulet sees money, handsomeness, and a good name. This tells us the same things as it did from the Nurse. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Psychology What does Romeo plan on giving to the nurse that will help him be able to see Juliet later that night? Ben Davis April 3, A considerable sense of impending doom hangs in the atmosphere. Although she is unaware of the tragic news that awaits her, Juliet's soliloquy fantasizing about her wedding night embroiders tragic images into the fabric of her epithalamion , or wedding song.
Light and dark imagery again play important roles in creating mood, foreshadowing action, and giving fate a vehicle by which to visit itself upon the characters in the play. Their affinity for the darkness illustrates their separation from the temporal, feuding world. Although external light the "garish sun" has become their enemy, the lovers have often provided light for each other. Here, Romeo brings "day in night. The Nurse's report transforms Juliet from an anxious young bride into a bereft widow.
Juliet feels conflicted because her love for Romeo clashes with her love and sense of duty to Tybalt, her cousin. Juliet expresses her conflicting emotions for Romeo using oxymoronic language: "Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical. The Nurse, on the other hand, expresses her feelings plainly. As part of the Capulet household, she grieves the loss of Tybalt as a family member. Shakespeare creates an interesting psychological tension in Romeo and Juliet by consistently linking the intensity of young love with a suicidal impulse.
Though love is generally the opposite of hatred, violence, and death, Shakespeare portrays self-annihilation as seemingly the only response to the overwhelming emotional experience of being young and in love. Romeo and Juliet seem to flirt with the idea of death throughout much of the play, and the possibility of suicide recurs often, foreshadowing the eventual deaths of the lovers in Act 5.
When Juliet misunderstands the Nurse and thinks that Romeo is dead, she does not think that he was killed, but that he killed himself. And thinking that Romeo is dead, Juliet quickly decides that she too must die. Her love for Romeo will allow no other course of action. In the balcony scene, a name seemed to be a simple thing that he could hold up in front of him and tear. Once torn, he could easily live without it. Now, with a better understanding of how difficult it is to escape the responsibilities and claims of family loyalty, of being a Montague, Romeo modifies his metaphor.
No longer does he conceive of himself as able to tear his name. Instead, now he must rip it from his body, and, in the process, die. But it is also possible that in this escalating time of strife with the Montagues, Capulet wants all the political help he can get. A marriage between his daughter and Paris, a close kinsman to the Prince, would go a long way in this regard.
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