Answer:
The main theme of "The Cold Equations" is about sacrifice. One person, although a young, pretty teen who has seen very little of life yet, has to be sacrificed for the good of others
Tom Godwin's chosen title for his short story "The Cold Equations" refers to the cold, factual mathematical equations that were used to calculate Marilyn's fate. The first equation refers to the one the computers that govern the Stardustcruiser and the Emergency Dispatch Ships (EDS) use to calculate.
Tom Godwin wrote Cold Equations
Explanation:
The town follows a tradition that kills someone once a year. Everyone agrees that the tradition must be followed, simply because it's a tradition, that is until they themselves are chosen to die. The townspeople do not want to die, but they are unwilling to break from tradition.
These lines are correct:
<span>The other motive,
Why to a public count I might not go,
Is the great love the general gender bear him;
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
Work, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
so that my arrows,
Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
Would have reverted to my bow again,
But not where I have aim'd them
Here, Claudius is clearly saying that he cannot accuse Hamlet of anything because the people in Denmark love their prince, so even if he did try to accuse him, nobody would believe him anyway. This is why he doesn't want to accuse Hamlet of Polonious's murder like that, but rather reveal the secret in other ways.
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