How does setting a work of drama in the past help drive the action of the story forward? -The events of the past cause the events in the story to unfold.

- It's easier to tell stories set in the past because everything already happened.

-Old stories are enjoyed more by most people.

- Stories about wars are always popular.

The events of the past cause the events in the story to unfold.

Explanation:

The other answers are based on opinion and are not very sound arguments for setting a work of drama in the past.

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read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

in at least 150 words, discuss the tone of the narrator in "i stand here ironing," and explain how it impacts the telling of the story