In the excerpt above, the word "gyre" can best be understood to mean a spiral.
Answer: Option C.
Explanation:
The line ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer’ is from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ which is written by William Butler Yeast’s. In the poem, the word ‘gyre’ refers to spiral or vortex which means s circular or spiral motion. The poet here describes a nightmarish scene where he sees that falcon turns into a widening gyre by making use of terrifying ritualistic language. William believes that the world is closer to revelation.
THE WEAKNESS OF PUBLIC MORALITY
In “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne reveals what he sees as the corruptibility that results from Puritan society’s emphasis on public morality, which often weakens private religious faith. Although Goodman Brown has decided to come into the forest and meet with the devil, he still hides when he sees Goody Cloyse and hears the minister and Deacon Gookin. He seems more concerned with how his faith appears to other people than with the fact that he has decided to meet with the devil. Goodman Brown’s religious convictions are rooted in his belief that those around him are also religious. This kind of faith, which depends so much on other people’s views, is easily weakened. When Goodman Brown discovers that his father, grandfather, Goody Cloyse, the minister, Deacon Gookin, and Faith are all in league with the devil, Goodman Brown quickly decides that he might as well do the same. Hawthorne seems to suggest that the danger of basing a society on moral principles and religious faith lies in the fact that members of the society do not arrive at their own moral decisions. When they copy the beliefs of the people around them, their faith becomes weak and rootless.
You’re pen and pencil ARE laying on the floor
The correct answer is option B
The answer is to become interested in or engaged in something
