Algernon. well, we might trot round to the empire at ten? jack. oh, no! i can’t bear looking at things. it is so silly. algernon. well, what shall we do? jack. nothing! algernon. it is awfully hard work doing nothing. however, i don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. what effect does the paradox in this excerpt have on the reader? a)it causes the reader to think about the multiple meanings of the word bear in the play. b)it causes the reader to think about how doing nothing should be easy, but in fact can be quite hard. c)it causes the reader to realize that doing nothing is never hard work and that algernon is wrong. d)it causes the reader to realize that jack thinks doing something is always better than doing nothing.

B. It causes the reader to think about how doing nothing should be easy, but in fact can be quite hard.

Explanation:

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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.

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