This passage uses humor to critique Victorian views about the importance of family by showing that feel as if children (aka starting a family) are everyday items like a "hand-bag".
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Read A Dead Woman's Secret
By Guy de Maupassant
1880
How do the siblings' reactions to their mother's letters contribute to the theme of the text?
The siblings are shocked, contributing to the theme that people are not always as they seem.
The siblings are angered after learning about their real father, contributing to the theme that it is best to be honest with others.
The brother condemns their mother but the sister sympathizes with her, contributing to the theme of forgiving loved ones.
The siblings are shocked but still watch over their mother, contributing to the theme that it is best to be loyal to family.
Answer: The siblings are shocked, contributing to the theme that people are not always as they seem.
Explanation:
Through the letter, the siblings find out that their assumed virtuous mother had at least one love affair. After being raised by the now-deceased woman, who inculcated them a strict code of morality and religiosity to such extent that Marguerite had become a nun and the son a flawless magistrate, this discovery makes them furious, and they angrily leave her.
Answer:
"The air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of the wave"
"on waves of that divine vitality."
Explanation:
Answer:
Onomatopoeia is the correct answer.
Explanation:
In the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya," the author uses a rhetorical device called onomatopoeia, which recreates the sounds of something, usually related to nature. Through this device, the speaker recreates hippos and baboons sounds through the word selection.
Ibsen uses drama and irony throughout the play to create the suspense in this passage.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The main consistency of " Doll's House" is dramatic irony. The play revolves around deep irony. There are situations where Nora does realize that the nurse was her only mother and the fact that she was going to leave her children. But the gap between the reality and outside look that is the pretending happy life of Nora, helps the play be more ironic.
The mismatch between the accurate and appearance throughout the play shows the ironic revolution. Ibsen uses drama and irony throughout the play to create the suspense in this passage.
