Blog post #3- Nurse's and Friar's Actions

     Do I approve of Friar Lawrence's and Nurse's actions in helping with Romeo and Juliet's secret wedding? In this situation, I think that the actions of Nurse and Friar were necessary.

When Juliet sends Nurse to discover Romeo's wedding plans, she is anxious to hear what the answer is. Nurse comes back to tell Juliet the good news, and Nurse says these very words to answer Juliet's exciting question: "Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence's cell;
There stays a husband to make you a wife.
Now comes the wanton blood upp in your cheeks;
They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.
Hie you to Church; I must another way,
To fetch a ladder, by which your love
Must climb a birds nest soon when it is dark.
I am the drudge and toil in your delight,
But you shall bear the burdan soon at night.
Go, I'll to dinner; hie you to the cell."

I feel like this "Forbidden" action the nurse has completed was, in a way, expected. I think this because Nurse and Juliet are very close. Being tight in relationship makes it an easy task to do something bad for someone you truly love and car about.

Friar  Lawrence, on the other hand, seems to be doing this secret deed for another reason. The Friar's responce to Romeo's favor is this:
"O, she knew well
They love did read by rote that could not spell.
But come, young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect I'll they assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households' rancour to pure love."

Friar tells Romeo that he will do Romeo the favor, however he is only doing it in the hope that the Montigues and the Capulets will end their feud when Romeo and Juliet get married.

All in all, I feel like these actions of both Nurse and Friar Lawrence are fairly necessary because they both have a reason that is important to them that makes them want to help both Romeo and Juliet.

This is a visual idea of what Romeo and Juliet's secret wedding was supposed to look like.