Prompt E:
Juliet and the Nurse have a mother-daughter relationship. The Nurse looks at Juliet as if she was her own daughter. In one of her speeches, she compares Juliet to Susan, her daughter, showing how attached and how much she cares for her. She says, "Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!) Were of an age." Also implied in her speech, she tells us that Lady Capulet was not the one who rose Juliet most of her life. Lady Capulet did not want to be part of the breast feeding, and the Nurse's daughter had passed. Because of this, the Nurse has taken the role of breast feeding from Lady Capulet. When Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about marriage, the Nurse understands how Juliet feels because she is the one who raised her. Like any mother, the Nurse embarrassed Juliet quite a bit in her speech, and Juliet did not scold her, but instead begged her to stop.
This really makes sense as to why the nurse is like this with juliet.
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