![]() ![]() Romeo is as good as dead, the Nurse tells Juliet, and she had better forget him and marry Paris. ![]() The Nurse and Juliet may have a loving, teasing sort of relationship at the beginning of the play, but when Juliet needs her most-after her parents order her to marry Paris-the Nurse betrays her. But there's never just one level with the Nurse-To "climb a bird's nest" is also slang for having sex. Here, she's literally talking about getting a ladder for Romeo to climb up so he can spend the night in Juliet's bedroom. Must climb a bird's nest soon when its dark. Not to mention, she has a real way with the dirty jokes, like this one: (Click the character infographic to download.)Įven a tragedy needs some comic relief, and who better than Juliet's bawdy, lower-class nurse? It's comic gold: she's a lower-class women, so that's already funny and she's a nurse, which means all she can talk about are bodies-bodies having sex, bodies having babies, bodies nursing babies. ![]()
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