Juliet's Nurse

Juliet’s Nurse


After reading Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, I have decided to do my detailed analysis on Juliet’s nurse. I chose Juliet’s nurse simply because she reminded me of my beloved great-grandma Dominguez whom, to this day, I miss dearly. Like my great-grandma Dominguez, Juliet’s nurse showed profound compassion and understanding for children. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate her compassion and understanding for children during three of her speeches in the play Romeo and Juliet.
The first speech I would like to demonstrate occurs in section 1.3, lines 61-64. Here Juliet’s nurse expresses her feelings about Juliet who appears to be one of the nurses favorite children (in that day it was fairly common for wet-nurses to become emotionally involved with their “children” despite the fact they were not actually the children’s biological parent) and dreams about the day Juliet gets married. I found humor in line 63 because the nurse impl...