https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees Fiona, Cleo and Maddie en-us 2017-03-08 11:23:18 UTC 2017-03-12 20:58:47 UTC hello@padlet.com e_holmes https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees/wish/158615463
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]]> 2017-03-08 11:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees/wish/158615463 https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees/wish/158743448  Nurse arrives with her servant, Peter. Mercutio makes dirty jokes and flirts with her. The now angry Nurse asks for Romeo and he introduces himself. She asks to speak with him in private. Mercurio and Benvolio leave. Once alone, Romeo asks Nurse to tell Juliet to meet them at the abbey where Friar Lawrence will marry them. He pays her for her efforts. He then tells her the rest of their plan: his men will bring a rope ladder to Nurse that Romeo will use to climb over the walls at night. She agrees. Nurse then asks Romeo if he is certain that he trusts Friar Lawrence: she wants their secret to be safe. Romeo assures her that he does and exits. The Nurse shouts to Peter and they leave.]]> 2017-03-08 17:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees/wish/158743448 https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees/wish/159528632 In act 2 scene 4 Mercutio (and Romeo) joke crudely in the presence of, and about, the Nurse. I think Shakespeare is trying to highlight the fact that Romeo is not as pure as Juliet ; he jokes about sex to the Nurse's face and he's had previous loves, including Rosaline, who he forgot very quickly.
The Nurse perceives Juliet as a  very pure,innocent girl: "my mistress is the sweetest lady" and clearly doesn't know how mature (and flirtatious) Juliet is around Romeo.This is reflected in the warning the Nurse gives to Romeo (in line 134):" If you should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say." 
The scene also constrasts Romeo and Juliet's beautiful, innocent love with Mercutio's crude sexual talk, that Romeo partakes in.
On the other hand, Shakespeare could just be throwing in some light relief for the people in the audience who were just there for the entertainment, because both educated and uneducated people came to his plays. 
Fiona]]> 2017-03-12 20:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/z9ro433tcees/wish/159528632