Contrast the characters in this excerpt from act i, scene iii of romeo and juliet. 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: 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. what does this passage convey about these two characters? a. nurse wants to build a stronger relationship with lady capulet. b. nurse resents lady capulet’s great wealth and power. c. lady capulet is jealous of nurse’s strong love for juliet. d. lady capulet is juliet’s mother but nurse knows juliet best.

D. Lady Capulet is Juliet’s mother but Nurse knows Juliet best.

Explanation:

In these lines, Lady Capulet needs to talk to Juliet. She initially asks the nurse to leave, but then asks her to come back when she remembers that the nurse is very close to Juliet. She remarks on this, and the nurse proves her familiarity by talking about Juliet's age. This passage shows that Lady Capulet is Juliet's mother, but it is the nurse who knows Juliet best.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

where is the writing? (so i can answer)