The youth is inexperienced and require guides in life to act as role models, and point them in the right direction. In Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, daughter and son of opposing spiteful families seek help when faced with problems posed by the depth of their love. Shakespeare argues that caregivers are significant as their advice and assistance can negatively impact the young and impressionable in love, expressed through events predominantly involving the characters of the Nurse, Friar Lawrence and Lady Capulet.
The character of the Nurse is utilized by Shakespeare to emphasize how the vulgarity in people negatively effects the young. The Nurse displays the trait of vulgarity through her belief of physical attraction and not love. She convinces herself that her advice will lead Juliet to see “love” through her perspective, and states, “A man, young lady! Lady such a man? As all the world — why he 's a man of wax.” (Shakespeare, 1.3.78-79). Her intentions were to guide Juliet into falling in love with Paris’ physical attributes by naming him the most handsome man “as all the world” and compares him to wax in a metaphor intended to further express his structural perfection. She describes Paris’ …show more content…
The Nurse’s trait of vulgarity fails to convey the reality of a healthy and realistic view of love, Friar Lawrence’s characteristic of cowardliness fails to teach honestly, and Lady Capulet’s careless actions and words cause rash actions in Juliet’s part. Through the end, Romeo and Juliet were negatively impacted by all three caregivers, who are all to blame for their deaths. Through the final outcome for Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare provokes the reader to think that sometimes it is better to rely on personal experience rather than rely blindly on the advice of well meaning, but flawed
The character of the Nurse is utilized by Shakespeare to emphasize how the vulgarity in people negatively effects the young. The Nurse displays the trait of vulgarity through her belief of physical attraction and not love. She convinces herself that her advice will lead Juliet to see “love” through her perspective, and states, “A man, young lady! Lady such a man? As all the world — why he 's a man of wax.” (Shakespeare, 1.3.78-79). Her intentions were to guide Juliet into falling in love with Paris’ physical attributes by naming him the most handsome man “as all the world” and compares him to wax in a metaphor intended to further express his structural perfection. She describes Paris’ …show more content…
The Nurse’s trait of vulgarity fails to convey the reality of a healthy and realistic view of love, Friar Lawrence’s characteristic of cowardliness fails to teach honestly, and Lady Capulet’s careless actions and words cause rash actions in Juliet’s part. Through the end, Romeo and Juliet were negatively impacted by all three caregivers, who are all to blame for their deaths. Through the final outcome for Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare provokes the reader to think that sometimes it is better to rely on personal experience rather than rely blindly on the advice of well meaning, but flawed