Read the selection below from the short story “the pit and the pendulum” by edgar allan poe and answer the question that follows.

i saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which i had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me.

which excerpt portrays the narrator’s madness best?

a.“i saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me . . ”

b.“by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice . . ”

c.“another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more . . ”

d. “[t]here was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.”

The excerpt which portrays the narrator’s madness best is:

B.“By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice . . . .”

The story begins with the narrator getting sentenced to death. The story takes to the time during the Spanish Inquisition when the result of the death sentence was the most horrible and terrifying. The setting of the story and the characters are described in the terms of being pale, scary, torturous, painful and horrifying. The description of the pendulum which is described as an instrument of death gives a Gothic experience to the readers.

tree and the cat in the tree

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.