The Nurse key quotes and context
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- Created on: 28-11-19 17:41
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- Nurse
- Act 1 Scene 3
- Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
- Why he's a man of wax
- Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.
- women grow by men
- Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
- Act 1 Scene 5
- His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your great enemy.
- Act 2 Scene 2
- Madam!
- Juliet goes in and out onto the balcony showing she doesn't know where her loyalties lie - with her family or with Romeo
- Madam!
- Act 2 scene 4
- When Mercutio says: the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the ***** of noon.
- Nurse: Out upon you! what a man are you!
- Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills. I am none of his skains-mates
- Offended by Mercutio
- When Mercutio says: the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the ***** of noon.
- Act 2 scene 5
- Oh my, my bones ache so much. I’ve been running all over the place.
- his face be better than any man’s, yet his leg excels all men’s,
- hen hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell.There stays a husband to make you a wife.
- Act 3 scene 2
- Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;
- Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?
- Act 3 Scene 5
- Stands up to Capulet
- You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so
- I think it best you married with the county.
- Although Juliet doesn't want to marry Paris, Nurse is looking out for her because she doesn't want Juliet to be on the streets and she wants her to have a good life. Even though this is not what Juliet wants, she has good intentions.
- Romeo's a dishclout to him
- I think you are happy in this second match,For it excels your first:
- Stands up to Capulet
- Act 4 Scene 5
- O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
- O me, o me, my child, my only life
- Context
- employed the Nurse to be Juliet's wet nurse. It was the nurse's role to take care of Juliet and to breastfeed her from birth. This was common for wealthy families in Elizabethan times.
- As the nurse looked after Juliet from her birth, they have more of an intimate connection than she and her biological mother do. This is presented through their relationship and how different it is to Juliet and Lady Capulet's.
- Lady Capulet
- Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me."
- "Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word, Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
- Not prepared to listen
- Act 1 Scene 3
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