A. Character, setting and theme can be compared and contrasted in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.
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D. The starlit balcony of the Capulet garden sets the scene for romance, while the stark marble of the senate steps creates a stiff, political setting.
The setting of "Marigolds" is during the depression or the 30s. You know this because the story says, "The depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us" and "the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed".
