Contrast the characters in this excerpt from Act I, Scene ili of Romeo and Juliet.
What does this passage convey about these two
characters?
Abel
Lady Capulet: This is the matter. Nurse, give leave
awhile.
We must talk in secret: nurse, come back again,
I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.
Nurse wants to build a stronger relationship with
Lady Capulet.
O Nurse resents Lady Capulet's great wealth and
power.
O Lady Capulet is jealous of Nurse's strong love for
Juliet
O Lady Capulet is Juliet's mother but Nurse knows
Juliet best
Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
Lady Capulet: She's not fourteen
Nurse: I'll lay fourteen of my teeth-
And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four-
She is not fourteen.
Save and Exit
Nex
Submit
Mark this and return