He says that Gregory and Sampson (montagues) are responsible
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The answer is D. It doesn't have too many commas and flows smoothly.
Personification is proving human qualities to non-human things. In Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick and Claudio frequently use personification to describe their emotions. For instance when Beatrice teases that courtesy turns disdain in Benedick’s presence, he calls courtesy a turncoat or a traitor
Ivan is discussing with two of the monks his article on the position of the ecclesiastical courts. He explains that he opposes the separation of church and state primarily because when a criminal needs to be punished, the public should not have to rely on the state to administer such punishment. Ivan states that if the church had the authority to punish and also to excommunicate the criminal, then a vast number of crimes would be diminished. To a degree, Father Zossima agrees, but he points out that the only effective punishment "lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
What’s the context behind this? If I would have to guess, it would be true.