Answer:
theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare's characters
Explanation:
In the passage, the speaker makes reference to two Shakespeare's characters in "Hamlet," Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who have been modified in a few adaptations by other authors. The theatrical adaptations are: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," by Tom Stoppard, "Waiting for Godot," by Samuel Beckett, and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern," by W. S. Gilbert.
The two lines of text in this excerpt from William Dean Howells's "Editha" that demonstrate the author’s opposition to conventional ideas of patriotism are:
1.) "You just expected him to kill someone else, some of those foreigners, that weren't there because they had any say about it, but because they had to be there, poor wretches—conscripts, or whatever they call 'em.
2.) "I thank my God he didn't live to do it! I thank my God they killed him first, and that he ain't livin' with their blood on his hands!"
<h3 /><h3>What is Patriotism?</h3>
Patriotism simply means allegiance to one's nation. A patriotic person can go as far as dying for his nation. In the text above, we can see that the author does not share the commonly accepted ideas about patriotism.
The author did not think that it was right to kill the opponents from a warring side who knew little or nothing about the cause of the war. He even preferred that the soldier on his side dies than staining his hands with innocent blood. This is absurd because it is not the commonly accepted norm.
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The right answer is "B Red Cloud describes the situation as bleak; with little food and fading traditions, they felt one of their only choices was to agree to reservation life and adopt white American ways."
In 1871, the government established the Red Cloud Agency on the Platte River, downstream from Fort Laramie. As outlined in the 1868 Treaty, the agency staff were responsible for issuing weekly rations to the Oglala, as well as providing the annually distributed supply of cash and annuity goods. The agent and Washington officials would determine how much of the annuity was to be paid in cash or goods, and sometimes the supplies were late, in poor condition, inadequate in amount, or never arrived at all. Red Cloud took his band to the agency (a predecessor of the Native American reservation) and tried to help them in the transition to a different way of life. In the fall of 1873, the agency was removed to the upper White River in northwestern Nebraska.
