Mentorship That Changes Juliet's Fate in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Some good mentorship, and some bad mentorship takes place in Romeo and Juliet. Juliet will take the wrong path and bad advice given to her, she doesn't know that yet. Picture someone you grow up knowing, perhaps a good friend, a mentor ,or a close family member. You always seen them as a good influence, or an astonishing mentor towards you, now think about that very special person influences you to make bad choices. Your mentor continuously leads you down the wrong path but you don't even realize it because you always knew that his or her guidance would help you, not hurt you. Her guidance and help eventually leads to what we know, as a tragedy. When the nurse secretly begins to deliver secret messages between Romeo and Juliet, it is the start of her bad mentorship. Following that, the nurse will agree to allow thirteen year old Juliet to be wedded. Later on after secretly marrying Romeo without her …show more content…
This intense, beautiful story about star crossed lovers began at a breathtaking masquerade ball. Both children Romeo and Juliet are from enemy families, it is destined to that they will not be together. They will change what is written in the stars ,but it ends awfully. Romeo and Juliet had deeply fallen in love at the masquerade, and have been seeing each other secretly since. Juliet's nurse knows exactly what goes on ,and continues to deliver messages between the two. “Good Heart, and faith I will tell her as much/ Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman” (II.4.163-164). What the nurse means by that is she has a message from Romeo to give to Juliet ,and she knows Juliet will be excited to receive it. Juliet's nurse is agreeing with their young forsaken love, this is the nurse's first mistake. Keeping a secret from the enemy families is a lot of weight on her
The Nurse helped out Juliet when her Parents could not. “As I told you my young lady bade me inquire you out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself”(Act II.II.148-149). The Nurse has offered to keep the secret of the marriage between the two young ones and she will not tell anyone about it. After the Nursze comes back from visting Romeo she finds ways to not tell Juliet the good news instead she starts talking about other things, the Nurse also knows how delighted juliet will be once when she finds out about the wedding “Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind,...where is your mother?”(Act II.II.55-57). The day of Mercutio and Tybalt 's death she did not think Romeo would do such a thing, and now her thoughts about Romeo have changed instead she thinks Romeo would end up hurting her young lady.
The Nurse gives her insight to follow her heart and continues on her opinion, “Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell; there stays a husband to make you a wife” (2.5.67-68). The Nurse is telling Juliet to go to Friar Lawrence’s cell where Romeo is waiting to marry her. The last way the Nurse impacts Juliet’s life is by convincing Juliet that Paris is a suitable husband for her. For example, she promises Juliet that the marriage with Paris will be better than the one with Romeo. She also tells Juliet that Romeo is banished so there is no reason not to marry Paris.
The nurse acts as Juliet’s mother figure as she has cared for her all her young life. She has a motherly instinct to nurture Juliet and look out for her well being. She explains, “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.”
Not only does the Nurse speak in prose but also becomes sidetracked easily. When she is seen talking to Juliet about Romeo’s message, Juliet becomes impatient because the Nurse will not stay focused enough to deliver the message. However, the Nurse proves to be very practical when giving advice to Juliet about her arranged marriage with Paris, while Friar Lawrence is idealistic in his plan for Romeo and Juliet to be together. When Juliet confronts the Nurse for help with the arranged marriage, the Nurse quickly
The Nurse uses lot of slang words when she talks, her language is very unformed and colloquial. She did not know how to talk with the young Lady and how to adult. When she first comes in front of the audience, she proves her ignorance by her dirty flashback, which she recalls to prove her contribution over Juliet’s childhood. When Juliet got married to Romeo by the help of the Nurse, and they are going to meet secretly, the Nurse collects a ladder, so that he could climb by it. Saying that… When it was the time of Juliet’s marriage with Paris, one morning when she was sleeping; taking the medicine from Frier Laurence, Nelly was ordered to awake her from sleep, she started to speak a lot irrelevant topic about her future life with her new
In this case, it seems that Juliet has not had as much bonding with her Lady Capulet as much as she has with the nurse. Lady Capulet has always needed a person to help her even when it is something that she has been doing for years. Some people may argue that she doesn’t take care of her child as much
Romeo and Juliet have fate against each other. Its said hat their love is “death marked.” Romeo and Juliet can’t control what going to happen as they go alone with this. For starters they’re in different groups, so they don’t know how their groups is going to react. It is their misfortune that leads to a terrible at the end.
After the news of Romeo being exiled is delivered to Juliet, Juliet breaks down. The nurse then tells Juliet she will “find Romeo/ to comfort [her]” (52). The nurse once again takes action to bring Romeo
The Immaturity of Romeo and Juliet Immaturity can spread throughout things and people creating problems for the present and future. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet not only shows the development of love, but the loss of maturity that leads to tragedy. People develop maturity, but the amount of immaturity makes the process go backwards. From Romeo and Juliet’s fast evolving relationship to the hate between the two families, and the lack of thought in different characters is recurrent throughout the story. Therefore,the theme of Romeo and Juliet evolves around the idea of immaturity.
She let her do what she wanted without limitations. She should’ve advised her to stay away from Romeo, since their relationship is very problematic due to the feud and her parents’ potential reactions. The Nurse guided Juliet in the wrong direction, so she is partly to blame for failing her and
While Juliet fantasizes about her life with Romeo, her nurse barges in with a gust of cool air outside, slams the door closed, and sits down with a furious expression. Juliet looks up expectantly from her diary with a dazzling smile, but only gets a glare from the red-faced, angry nurse. Nurse then vents her frustration to Juliet who sits, fidgeting, but trying to pay attention. Finally, Juliet can’t wait any longer. She blurts out quickly that she wants to know what Romeo said about her note but claps her hands over her mouth in shock.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters were lovers who both tragically died together. In the play, several people caused these deaths and one of them was the Nurse. She and the Friar helped Romeo and Juliet, who were just children, get married and when things got complicated and hard, the Nurse did not take responsibility after. She was a close family like friend to Juliet, In Romeo and Juliet, the relationship between Juliet and the Nurse was just a friendship, the Nurse was definitely not a mentor. The nurse had a playful, loving and fun bond with her, she was like a mother to her.
Our tale begins in fair Verona, where a young fellow by the name of Romeo embarks on a forbidden love with the only offspring of his parent’s only enemy. The Capulet family is hosting a magnificent party to celebrate their daughter, Juliet. A depressed Romeo is convinced on going and immediately falls in love. They both know it is meant to be. They are married the next day and as Romeo is returning home, he feels a feeling, similar to the one before the party.
Nurse is one of the only people who knows of the relationship, and because of that, Juliet can open up to her. As Juliet’s confidante, the Nurse has a very close relationship with Juliet, and knows all of her secrets in life. This point-of-view allows the reader to get a closer view of what Juliet is really feeling. At the Capulet feast, Nurse watches over Juliet, and sees her kissing Romeo. Nurse breaks up the kissing by saying, “Madam, your mother craves a word with you.”
Confidantes can be very different while still being caring. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. Friar and the Nurse are both confidantes but still are different through opinions, risks, and character. First, Friar and the Nurse think differently about risks. Friar takes risks to fulfill other's needs.