Question

English- Romeo and Juliet

Which of the following quotes from Act III, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, illustrates Shakespear's use of comic relief?
A) Lady Capulet: Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,/The gallant, young, and noble gentlemen,/The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,/ Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
B) Capulet: Hang thee, young baggage. Disobedient wretch!/I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,/ Or never after look me in the face./Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.

Answer 1

C) Juliet: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds/That sees into the bottom of my grief?---/O sweet my mother, cast me not away!/Delay this marriage for a month, a week.

D) Nurse: I think it best you married with the county./ O, he's a lovely gentlemen!/ Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,/ Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye/As Paris hath. (correct)

Answer 2

D. Shakespeare uses the Nurse as comic relief throughout the play. She also uses the insult dishclout, which is absurd. Thus, D is the right answer.