macbeth. bring forth men-children only;
for thy undaunted mettle should compose
nothing but males. will it not be received,
when we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two
of his own chamber and used their very daggers,
that they have done't?

lady macbeth. who dares receive it other,
as we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
upon his death?

macbeth. i am settled, and bend up
each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
away, and mock the time with fairest show:
false face must hide what the false heart doth know.

william shakespeare, macbeth, act i, scene vii
based on this exchange between macbeth and lady macbeth, what can you infer about macbeth?
a. he has decided to kill the king.
b. he needs to get drunk before he can go through with it.
c. he needs more time to make up his mind.
d. he believes that lady macbeth has gone insane.

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.

What syllables in "arrived" are stressed/unstressed?

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.