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This passage analyzes a scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet where Juliet pleads with the Nurse to tell her Romeo's message. The Nurse delays telling Juliet, exacerbating Juliet's anxiety. This exchange highlights how love can override other priorities and emotions for Juliet. It also explores whether the Nurse deliberately delays telling Juliet Romeo's message to tease her.

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Gizmos

This passage analyzes a scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet where Juliet pleads with the Nurse to tell her Romeo's message. The Nurse delays telling Juliet, exacerbating Juliet's anxiety. This exchange highlights how love can override other priorities and emotions for Juliet. It also explores whether the Nurse deliberately delays telling Juliet Romeo's message to tease her.

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Act 2, Scene 5
DELA GES
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ME S S Passage Analysis
JULIET • Does this exchange between Juliet and the
Now, good sweet nurse — O Lord, why lookest thou Nurse come off as comic or tragic? How do
sad? you know?
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily. When Juliet needs the Nurse the most, after her
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news parents order her to marry Paris, the Nurse
By playing it to me with so sour a face. 25
betrays her.

NURSE
I am aweary. Give me leave awhile.
Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I!
• How might Juliet’s emotions in this scene be
JULIET connected to a theme in the play?
I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news. She shows that love is a violent, ecstatic,
Nay, come, I pray thee, speak. Good, good nurse, overpowering force that supersedes all other
speak. 30 values, loyalties, and emotions.

NURSE
Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay awhile?
Do you not see that I am out of breath?
• Does the Nurse deliberately delay the
delivery of Romeo’s message to Juliet? Why
JULIET
or why not?
How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath? Yes because she is teasing Juliet.
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay 35
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that.
Say either, and I’ll stay the circumstance.
Let me be satisfied: is ’t good or bad?

“I am the drudge and toil in your delight.

But you shall bear the burden soon at night.”

Discussion Questions
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1) Does Juliet’s eagerness to hear 2) How might the conversation 3) How might Act 2, Scene 5
Romeo’s message cause her to between Juliet and the Nurse provide some comic relief within
treat the Nurse in a rude or echo the conversation between an otherwise tragic play? What
unsympathetic way? Why or why Romeo and Friar Lawrence? makes this scene so funny?
not? What advice do the elders give to
the young lovers?
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