I would say many thing from life liberty and pursuit of happiness have come through freedom of newspapers talking about government issues or thoughts many books about openly opinionated articles were allowed from these themes. (I'm not an expert just giving a sort of ideas )
This is best summarized by the third statement. Although the first statement originally looks like the correct answer, if you pay attention to his wording, he says that they will not reconcile while they are fighting, and that their work will become undone by quarrels. The third statement is the most correct.
To build mystery and anticipation for Merrick's introduction.
Answer: Option B.
<u>Explanation:</u>
In "The Elephant Man", in the excerpt that has been shown above, the phrase has been used a lot of times by the author a lot of times. The meaning and the intention of the author for using this phrase is that he wanted to create an anticipation for the introduction of Merrick.
The author in his introduction says that he has no hope and neither does he have any expectations. He has certain deformities in him and because of these deformities, he has to bear a lot of pain. To add to this introduction, he uses this phrase many times and adds mystery.