How Does the Nurse Help Juliet

At first, the Nurse supports the romance between Romeo and Juliet. She acts as a messenger, encourages the secret marriage, and even helps Romeo secretly enter Juliet’s bedchamber. Later, however, the Nurse turns her position and encourages Juliet to abandon Romeo.

How does the nurse help Juliet in Act 3?

The Nurse advises her to go through with the marriage to Paris—he is a better match, she says, and Romeo is as good as dead anyhow. Though disgusted by her nurse’s disloyalty, Juliet pretends to agree, and tells her nurse that she is going to make confession at Friar Lawrence’s.

How does the nurse help Juliet feel better?

The Nurse says that because Romeo is banished and is therefore “nothing” to Juliet, it is the best thing she could do to marry Paris, by comparison with whom Romeo is a mere “dishclout.” She is trying to comfort Juliet as best she knows how: by saying that Romeo isn’t particularly great anyway and that Paris is “lovely …