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  • A Monologue from the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
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CharacterJuliet
GenderFemale
Age Range(s)Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35)
Type of monologue / Character isDepressed, Lamenting, Frustrated, Talking to the audience
TypeDramatic
PeriodRenaissance
GenreTragedy
DescriptionJuliet waits for her nurse
DetailsACT 2 Scene 5

Summary

In the city of Verona we find two quarreling families, the Montegues and the Capulets. Romeo belongs to the Montegue family and Juliet to the Capulets. In this first scene of the play a fight takes place between servants and kinsmen of the two families until the Prince of Verona stops them. Benvolio runs into his cousin Romeo who tells him he is in love with Rosaline who has sworn to live a life of chastity and therefore does not return her love. Benvolio advices him to forget about her but Romeo won't listen to him.

The Capulets throw a masquerade party at their house. Capulet, the father of the Capulet family asks Paris, a kinsman to the Prince, to meet his daughter Juliet at the party and court her. He wants him to marry her but wait at least two years since she is thirteen years old.

Mercutio convinces his friend Romeo to join him and his friends at the Capulet party. Romeo is reluctant but then accepts to go. There he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love. He meets her and they kiss. Juliet doesn't know that Romeo is a Montegue and later finds out from her nurse. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, notices that they are at his party and wants to start a fight but is stopped by Capulet. Romeo and his friends leave the party but then Romeo decides to go back and meet Juliet again. He climbs into the Capulet's orchard, they meet and exchange vows of love.

The next day Romeo meets Friar Lawrence and convinces him to marry them. Juliet sends her nurse as a messenger to meet Romeo to find out where they shall meet to get married.

In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 5, Juliet is waiting impatiently for her nurse. She wonders why it is taking so long for her to come back.

Written by Administrator

Excerpt
JULIET
The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.
O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,
Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me:
But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
O God, she comes!

[Enter Nurse and PETER]

O honey nurse, what news?
Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.

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