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metaphor since it’s not literally
Braydon is going to need 20 scoops of cement of mix because five multiplied by four.
Zaroff is weeding out the weak and degenerates to better fill the gene pool with stronger people rather than weaker ones
Answer: APOTHECARY: My poverty, but not my will, consents.
In this excerpt, we see an apothecary (the equivalent of a pharmacist nowadays) and Romeo. Romeo wants to buy poison, while the apothecary refuses to sell it to him because it is illegal. However, Romeo can tell the man is very poor. He is thin, looks hungry and is obviously in need. Romeo tells him to ignore the law, because he could use the benefit of the money he is willing to pay. The apothecary sells him the poison, but tells him that he does so unwillingly, because of his poverty. The conflict is between two factors that are important to him: on the one hand, his values tell him that it is wrong to break the law, and on the other, his poverty forces him to break it anyway.
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The machines come to symbolize the false hopes and promises of the modern age. The narrator's suspicion of these machines is conveyed in his descriptions of the major's case. While the machine works upon his injured hand, the major merely looks out the window. Like the narrator, he is detached. Nevertheless, as the code hero, he goes through the motions; he adheres to the form required of him despite meaninglessness.
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