C. casual observer who has the authority to tell the story
1. The Puritans closed the theatres.
2. The Puritans were disliked due to their mentality and writers wrote satirical parodies about their attitude.
3. The Puritans attacked churches and won civil wars.
Explanation:
The Puritans attacked the church against corruption. They found it unacceptable to find their positions falling to the Catholics.
Queen Elizabeth did not allow religious arguments to avoid disputes. The Puritans were unable to adopt Calvinist prayer book. They were unable to follow Puritan freedom of conscience due to Church bureaucracy. They were disappointed and led to legal disputes and wars.
The Puritans were against theatres and hence closed them all. They did not allow stage plays and disliked by many writers and actors. Many parodies were written about their mentality by the writers. Shakespeare's play <em>'Twelfth Night'</em> had a Puritan character in it named 'Malvolio'.
B. The thickness of your skin shall be seven spans
The theme in a story is the underlying or central message, otherwise known as the 'big idea' that shows insight into life that the author is trying to convey. It is often defined as the 'moral of the story'. They tend to be serious, universal, stated in absolutes, etc.
Therefore the answer is D.
I can tell you that Fragments are sections, broken pieces of something, to separate.
