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The author means that when people with power attempt to be fair they will be torn between two groups the people (critics) who feel that their choice is incorrect and the ones who feel that it is correct due to the situation. So kind of like the subject of bringing beheading back in the US many feel it is a horrible idea but many also feel it is correct. And for the second one, I am not sure because I have not read your article only the seventh paragraph.
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The text says that Caliban has swollen feet, a scarred face, fourteen scars on his head, a piece of his right ear missing, and has a crooked noes. These disfigurements suggest that he was in battle, lives in the wild, or lives roughly. In this story, he is outside, looking into a pond, and it suggests that he is on foot, perhaps travelling.
