Read this line from the text: Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. What idea does the word transient suggest in this text? Humans are as temporary as insects that live only a few days. Human behavior is much like that of insects. Like insects, humans have not spent ample time securing their future. Unlike insects, humans need water to survive their harsh environment.

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

Romeo and juliet have fallen in love, even though their families despise one another. based on the excerpt, what are the two main purposes of this prologue?

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.