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R&J ~ Nurse (Caring (She cares about Juliet deeply and often goes…
R&J ~ Nurse
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Bawdy
When she tells Lady Capulet that she has already called to Juliet, she accidentally adds some absolutely unnecessary information.
“Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old, / I bade [Juliet] come” (I.iii.2–3)
She unintentionally references a strange oath, in which she swears by the "maidenhood" that she still had when she was twelve.
Caring
She cares about Juliet deeply and often goes against her parents to help Juliet do what she wants to do.
Act 2, Scene 4
She tells Romeo that Juliet sent her to deliver a message and talk to him, but also warns him not to "lead her into a fool's paradise".
Romeo gives her some money so that his servant can use a rope ladder to climb up to Juliet's room later that night. The Nurse can't help getting swept up in the excitement of making romantic plans on behalf of Juliet, so allegiance here seems to be only to Juliet.
Act 1, Scene 3
She says one last thing that if she lives long enough to see Juliet married, she would die a happy women.
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Act 3, Scene 5
The Nurse has the responsibility of warning Juliet that her mother is coming on the last night, so that Romeo can successfully scurry out the window to escape undetected.
When she comes to Juliet's rescue, she gets screamed at by Capulet instead and gets called "a fool".
The Nurse urges Juliet to succumb to her family's wishes to marry Paris instead of Romeo, since he is banished and may never come back. Juliet agrees and tells her to tell her mother she has gone to the Friar to make a confession and be absolved for offending her father, she is congratulated by the Nurse.
She is occasionally treated like a friend and confidant, but is forced to realize she's ultimately nothing more than hired help.
The Nurse (and the Friar) act as messengers in between Romeo & Juliet, and both are united in the need to care for the two young individuals who have melodramatic emotions.
This care for Juliet also stems from the fact that she had a daughter the same age as her who died young, so they are in a way surrogate mother-daughter for each other.
"Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she, God rest all Christian souls
Were of an age." (I.iii.)