Read the following passage from the womens bath although girls usually side with their mother i had a strong feeling of sympathy for my grandmother old age had caught up with her since her husband had died some time before and left her a widow and little by little her authority in the home shrank as my mothers authority gradually extended it is the law of life one takes then one hands over to another in ones turn but that does not mean we obey the law readily and willingly. which of these ideas is most closely related to a theme in these lines

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! 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 torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive