Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
Answer:
The traveler message is that happiness is a mutually exclusive emotion.
Explanation:
The Traveler is written by Oliver Goldsmith in the year 1764. The poem is about reason of happiness to a person. The happiness and level of joy is different for every one in every situation. This is the reason he has connected happiness with mutually exclusive emotion.
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