I would say A because the main idea would be that the men Odysseus sent didn't come back after eating the Lotus plant.
C. The road they live on
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The humor is shown in the way the trials were conducted; First of all, they were <u>advertised</u> - like an entertainment spectacle or a circus show.
- <em>"Accordingly the Time and Place was agreed on, and advertised about the Country; "</em>
These witch trials are ridiculed because they are referred to as an <em>Experiment - </em>supposedly based on facts and reason to prove someone is guilty, and alluding to science experiments - when in reality they were not logical at all.
- <em>"(...) if the Accused were weighed in Scales against a Bible, the Bible would prove too heavy for them; or that, if they were bound and put into the River, they would swim;"</em>
In the end they decide to repeat the trials, and they promise nudity to attract a bigger audience.
- <em>" But it being the general Belief of the Populace, that the Womens Shifts, and the Garters with which they were bound help’d to support them; </em><u><em>it is said they are to be tried again the next warm Weather, naked.</em></u><em>"</em>
Answer:
...in order to put an end to corruption, the offenders need to be punished
