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The men of Athens are afraid when women show power, as their entire patriarchal system relies on female complacency.
Explanation:
The point of the play-within-a-play to make fun of the dramatics of the Athenian lovers, and to make the play end with a happy note.
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A) Nobody can really understand anyone else's story, because nobody knows what it is really like to see from another's perspective.
Explanation:
Support in the text:
"Do you see the story? Do you see anything? ... No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence -- that which makes its truth, its meaning -- its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live ... -- alone".
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Quotes from the Text: What text did you mark? Annotations: What notes did you write about the meaning, voice, or mood?
the lawns looked well behaved and boring. The grass grew obediently The narrator thinks her new home is dull. Using the word boring and expressing a negative attitude about obedience makes her seem young, maybe a teenager.
each green blade standing upright like a tiny soldier. The narrator feels that there is too much order, maybe showing that she is restricted too.
with their bright yellow petals and dark brown faces The word missed makes me think that the narrator wants to go back to her old home. The bright colors of her friends and her memories of them are different from the dull situation she is experiencing now.Explanation:
That Mrs. Mallard has a heart condition is stated in the very first sentence of the story, foreshadowing the outcome of her death. It isn't the news that her husband has died that upsets her, but the news that he is alive that causes her death after the joy of knowing to be free.
