Compare romeo and mercutio in these lines from act i, scene iv of romeo and juliet. romeo: give me a torch: i am not for this ambling; being but heavy, i will bear the light. mercutio: nay, gentle romeo, we must have you dance. romeo: not i, believe me: you have dancing shoes with nimble soles; i have a soul of lead which statements about this dialogue are true? check all that apply. mercutio provides a foil for romeo. mercutio and romeo are friends. mercutio and romeo are enemies. romeo is practical and optimistic. romeo is brokenhearted and emotional. romeo will be influenced by mercutio.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.