Romeo: what is her mother? nurse: marry, bachelor, her mother is the lady of the house, and a good lady, and a wise, and virtuous: i nurs'd her daughter, you talk'd withal; i tell you he that can lay hold of her shall have the chinks. romeo: is she a capulet? o dear account! my life is my foe's debt. –romeo and juliet, william shakespeare which line of dialogue signals that romeo is a star-crossed lover? “a good lady” “wise, and virtuous” “he that can lay hold of her” “my life is my foe’s debt”

How does crane's depiction of the way information was spread in the nineteenth century affect the novel? crane seeks to use the novel as a way to criticize the journalists of the time for how they glorified war as a means of union propaganda. by depicting the extent to which newspapers were circulated, crane seeks to expose the lack of unbiased reporting at the time. by giving newspapers a major role in the novel, crane seeks to make a connection between the increasing role of the military in national affairs and the decline of farming. crane captures the power of journalistic reports at a time when it was the primary means of transmitting information to a broad audience by showing its influence on henry.