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in act iv, scene vii, of shakespeare's hamlet what is notable about gertrude's words about ophelia's death?
as one incapable of her own distress,
or like a creature native and indu'd
unto that element. but long it could not be
till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
to muddy death[.]
o a. ophelia's death seems to be a contrived murder, which gertrude is trying to hide.
b. gertrude is opening up the possibility that ophelia did not kill herself.
c. ophelia's death is depicted as something that released her from madness.
d. gertrude is poetic in her description of ophelia's death.

Which passage from the story best shows how the mothers attitude toward gregor has changed

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.

The missionaries who appear in the novel are colonist britain, portugal, spain, or italy?