Below is the last stanza of a poem, "dover beach," written in 1876 by matthew arnold.    ah, love, let us be true    to one another! for the world, which seems    to lie before us like a land of dreams,    so various, so beautiful, so new,    hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,    nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain;    and we are here as on a darkling plain    swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,    where ignorant armies clash by night. which one of the following statements best characterizes arnold's view of the world? a. the world is made for lovers. b. the world is not a beautiful place. c. the world is just a dream. d. the world is a confusing and hostile place.

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explanation:

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.