The following excerpt from anton chekhov's the proposal is a monologue. which two statements can best to distinguish this excerpt as a monologue?
lomov: it's cold . . i'm trembling all over, just as if i'd got an examination before me. the great thing is, i must have my mind made up. if i give myself time to think, to hesitate, to talk a lot, to look for an ideal, or for real love, then i'll never get married. . brr! . it's cold! natalya stepanovna is an excellent housekeeper, not bad-looking, well-educated. . what more do i want? but i'm getting a noise in my ears from excitement. [drinks] and it's impossible for me not to marry. . in the first place, i'm already 35—a critical age, so to speak. in the second place, i ought to lead a quiet and regular life. . i suffer from palpitations, i'm excitable and always getting awfully upset. . at this very moment my lips are trembling, and there's a twitch in my right eyebrow. . but the very worst of all is the way i sleep. i no sooner get into bed and begin to go off when suddenly something in my left side—gives a pull, and i can feel it in my shoulder and head. . i jump up like a lunatic, walk about a bit, and lie down again, but as soon as i begin to get off to sleep there's another pull! and this may happen twenty times. .

How do the thieves respond when jonathans family begins to yell in the story civil peace by chinua achebe

Read the passage from animal farm. as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives

Why was kennedy concerned about the use of nuclear weapons