most likely A, because a flashback describing the setting shows the reader the past
The story wouldn’t have been as conflicting. if all the animals worked together they wouldn’t have had any problems to deal with
Well for one, they start seeing things in a different point of view, and this possibly led to writers finding a narrative that suits that. So Modernist writers like, lets say Virginia Woolf's style, is mostly free indirect discourse. Like, the inner thoughts become more important. So I'd say it influences the narrative.
A shakespearean tragedy traditionally follows the Freytag pyramid of Dramatic structure which consists of five parts. Freytag's analysis is derived from Aristotle's poetics that had a three-part view of a plot structure. the five parts are: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Denouement.