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The person who said these lines is the Nurse.
All of these could be considered an "author's purpose". An author is technically anyone who writes anything, therefore the purpose of writing is theoretically limitless. If you have to choose one of these, however, it would be "to remind".
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The Ship of State is a famous and oft-cited metaphor put forth by Plato in Book VI of the Republic (488a–489d). It likens the governance of a city-state to the command of a naval vessel and ultimately argues that the only people fit to be captain of this ship (Greek: ναῦς) are philosopher kings, benevolent men with absolute power who have access to the Form of the Good. The origins of the metaphor can be traced back to the lyric poet Alcaeus (frs. 6, 208, 249), and it is found in Sophocles' Antigone and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes before Plato.
We are learning about Earth in school. Our teacher said, Earth changes every day." Then we watched a movie about the ocean. Every day, ocean waves are washing away the shore. Now, I am excited to learn more about how Earth is changing.