To me, this depends on how you see the nurse and how you
think that she feels about Juliet.
If you think that she
truly loves Juliet, then this scene shows her stricken with grief. She's so sad, you
can say, that she is barely coherent. She keeps repeating herself over and over again.
Here is an example of how she does that:
O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever ever I did yet
behold!
O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!(55)
Never was seen so
black a day as this.
O woeful day! O woeful
day!
But what if you think
that she doesn't love Juliet that much? What if you are sort of cynical? In that case,
you can look at these words and say that she is just faking it. You can say that she
does not really care -- she's just saying stuff over and over without really meaning
it. If she meant it, wouldn't she say why she's sad? Wouldn't she say something to
tell us what she if feeling other than "this is really
terrible?"
So I think it's up to you and to your own ideas
about her true feelings for Juliet.
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