A key difference between William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Arthur Brooke's The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet is the character and role of Juliet's nurse . In Shakespeare's interpretation of Brooke's poem, the Nurse boasts of having raised Juliet (Act I, scene iii, 16-48). She even feels herself above Lady Capulet because she breastfed Juliet, which Lady Capulet would never do. The Nurse essentially raised Juliet and helped shape her into the teenager she is now. The depth of this relationship causes the Nurse to have a maternal relationship with Juliet, which is in contrast to the cold and passionate relationship Juliet has with her real mother. The Nurse regards Juliet as her daughter, especially since her daughter died, along with her husband, before the play begins. Juliet is the only person left in Verona that the Nurse loves, and it is this love that motivates the Nurse to help Juliet on many occasions. She willingly acts as a messenger between Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene iv) and vows to remain silent about their affair. It is Juliet's dependence on the Nurse that allows the audience to better understand Juliet's desperation when the Nurse refuses to continue helping her and instead advises her to marry Paris (Act III, scene v, 215-228). The fact that Juliet has lost the one person who constantly supported her creates a feeling of pity in Juliet as she makes a desperate attempt to marry Romeo on her own. The loving, compassionate and wise nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is not at all the one expressed in Brooke's The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. In this version, the reason behind his involvement of the Nurse isn't due to a desire to see Juliet in the center of the paper... it's the lesson of respecting social class. Although the Nurse still encounters a The tragic end of Brooke's poem teaches the audience a slightly different lesson. In Brooke's version, the Nurse acts on Juliet's behalf with greed and without compassion, which results in her exile at the end of the poem as the cause of the tragedy (2986). Despite her exile, Brooke illustrates the evil of greed as the Nurse, being only a servant, had no reason to get involved in Juliet's romance, but does so anyway because of the money involved. The Nurse finds herself in a bad situation due to her greed, and is therefore exiled. Interestingly, both Brooke and Shakespeare, while creating different versions of Juliet's Nurse, manage to teach the audience a lesson through her flaws, revealing the truth that ultimately it is one's flaws that reveal one's destiny.