In life one choice by a single person can make or break what fate had in store for the particular circumstance that you are in. In the “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” many factors decided the outcome, including all of the decisions made by the Nurse. Juliet’s Nurse single handedly took down the whole story line by deceiving Juliet into indirectly marrying by lobbying her to marry Paris. The Nurse also plays a vital role in convincing Romeo that he will never be good enough, resulting in him pursuing Juliet like a bloodhound after a prisoner escape. Here in the real world our “great society” can be duped into anything as long as we are told a believable lie. Every crime consequentially has a culprit, in the case of this play the Nurse was interfering, and deceiving numerous characters, therefore completely obliterating or “transforming” Shakespeare’s story line. Near the beginning of the play the Nurse is trying to convince Juliet why she should marry Paris proclaiming no imperfections. “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man As all the world-Why, he’s a man of fine wax”(Shakespeare 388). Essentially the Nurse is inciting that Paris would be the perfect man for Juliet, since he has no lack of …show more content…
The Nurse in the next quote reveals what were to happen for the man Juliet marries, “I tell you, he that can lay hold of her shall have the chinks”(Shakespeare 395). In context this would sound normal,but in this case the Nurse is basically telling Romeo to go after as hard as he possibly can. By joining a union with Juliet the Nurse said that Romeo will have tons of money, by the definition of chinks in the book. The Nurse implies that anything that happens will go through me first, I am the only real parent she has ever had, you will play by my rules, consequently her rules led to their double