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What is the purpose of the nurse's monologue in Act 1 Scene 3 Romeo and Juliet

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The Nurse is a comic character who is a contrast for Juliet, contrasting Juliet's innocence with the Nurse's older, more rough outlook on life. Her remembering Juliet's younger life is to bring the fact that Juliet is coming to womanhood
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