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D. death is compared to sleep
"to die, to sleep"
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“Leaps on the back of the wind” connects to “ran down the hill.”
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"The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys".
"The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light".
Explanation:
The setting of any act or scene is the place where the events occur. The place or location of the scenes and the environment around it comprises the setting.
In the given passage from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", the phrases that reveal of implies the setting is <em>"The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys"</em>. This line gives the location of the scene, the playground. Moreover, the description of the atmosphere, <em>"the evening air"</em> and <em>"the greasy leather orb [flying] through the grey light"</em> presents another setting phrase.
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the substance tastes bitter
In Hamlet's soliloquy he discusses death, it's pros and cons, and consequences in depth. His conclusion, that the dreams death may bring are too frightening to face, characterizes him as a coward as well as an intellectual. He is obviously very intelligent, having gone to college, and proves his intelligence by creating a master plan to avenge his father and taking painfully long to make any decision. Yet, he is still cowardly because he cannot muster the courage to kill himself even though he obviously doesn't want to live any longer. Another instance that he comes across as cowardly is when he won't kill Claudius while he is praying because he's afraid he will send him to heaven.
