To fight for thee country and that retirement check <span />
Puns were used by Shakespeare to explain meaning, to make sense of the world around his characters. If a certain scene in his play was a bit confusing, he would often use a pun, which is a play on words, in order to explain what is happening in more detail. His puns were very clever, and many of them are still used today, without people even realizing how old they actually are.
Scrooge<span> begs to know the identity of the dead man, exasperated in his attempts to understand the lesson of the silent </span>ghost<span>. Suddenly, he finds himself in a churchyard where the spirit points him toward a freshly dug grave. </span>Scrooge<span> approaches the grave and reads the inscription on the headstone: EBENEZER </span>SCROOGE<span>.</span>
I think the answer would be B