Themes and Resolution in Romeo and Juliet, Part 8 — Unit test
Question 7 • GA-Literature and Composition I
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.
Answer
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.
Explanation
Lady Capulet speaks formally and asks the Nurse to leave while she discusses Juliet’s future, showing the distance between mother and daughter. The Nurse, by contrast, knows Juliet’s age so precisely that she claims she can tell it “unto an hour,” and jokes about her own missing teeth. This contrast suggests that although Lady Capulet is Juliet’s mother, the Nurse knows her best. The excerpt does not show resentment or jealousy.
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