A man young lady. Like romeo juliet experiences love as a kind of freedom.
He is still seeing love from an extremely egotistical point of view and has yet to learn the higher ideal of love juliet will come to represent.
The nurse love quotes romeo and juliet. In contrast to juliets youth the nurse is old and enjoys complaining about her aches and pains. Well it seems like juliets use of an economic metaphor her lovewealth is shakespeares way of drawing our attention to the fact that romeo and juliet are not marrying for money. You are to blame my lord to rate her so the nurse tells him 35177.
Her imagery has sexual undertones. The nurses relationship with juliet focuses attention on juliets age. The first occurrence appears in act 1 scene 3 when lady capulet asks the nurse to call for juliet.
Were not i thine only nurse i would say thou hadst suckd wisdom from thy teat. Her love is boundless and infinite her experience of love is more openly erotic than romeos. In william shakespeares romeo and juliet the nurse displays matronly characteristics that establish her as a mother figure to the adolescent juliet.
In juliets first scene the nurse repeatedly asserts that juliet has not yet had her 14th birthday. On the other hand maybe the nurse does understandjuliets love for romeoshes just woman of the world and knows how limited juliets options are in a way that an idealistic little teenager doesnt. When romeo is banished the nurse suggests that juliet would be just as happy with paris because hes better looking.
For romeo more love only increases sorrow and grief. Lady such a man as all the worldwhy hes a man of wax. After all she does try to stand up to lord capulet when he is yelling at his daughter a bold move.
The nurse onyl speaks of physical pleasure no cpacity for true love you shall burn the burden soon at night go girl seek happy nights to happy days no use of him physical pet name for juliet what lamb. Juliets disagreement also signals a break with her former trusted confidante. Juliet disagrees which shows that her passion for romeo is no longer merely physical.
Of course romeos quote above sees sharing love in the completely opposite way. While many of the plays characters the nurse the capulets paris see marriage as a means of securing wealth and status romeo and juliet marry because theyre madly in love. Juliet is always more in touch with the practicalities of lovesex and marriagethan romeo who is less realistic.
One of the nurses roles in romeo and juliet is to highlight the development of juliets character.