The Most Dangerous Game story as two major themes. The first one is reason vs. Instinct and The Effects of War.
On this excerpt, you can see that the theme is reason vs. instinct. The hunter thinks that hunting is a good sport even though it kills an animal that has no way of defending itself. The character Whitney defends that the jaguar has feelings, especially the fear of pain and being killed.
This way this character is used to blur differences between animals and humans, that both have the same feelings.
Children would drift around the rooms like ghostly shadows
Based on the given excerpt above which is taken from "To Kill a Mocking Bird", it shows the Scout is evoking the shooting of the rabid dog. This is the scene about the Mad Dog. The answer would be the third option. Hope this answer helps.
An allusion. Religious allusion to be more specific.
Answer:
Because it takes a long time for the predictable outcome to occur
Explanation:
This is a line from melo-drama called "Hamlet Dull Revenge" authored by Rene Girard.
The play examines the character called Hamlet who despite wanting to avenge his father, who was unjustly killed by Claudius, took his time to investigate the circumstances involved instead of engaging his mindless and wanton killings because of his desire for vengeance.
The author Girard, concludes that Hamlets tact is delaying vengeance is not a sign of weakness as vengeance is often a response to violence or injury to a loved person.
