"she stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. men laughed in her face. the manage - a fat, loose-lipped man - guffawed. he bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting - no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress." - what comparison was virginia woolf making here, based on the time period in which she lived?
a) she was comparing male and female acting roles in the victorian era.
b) she was showing how men treated women terribly from one era to the next.
c) women during shakespeare's time period had similar limitations placed on them as women it in the victorian time period.
d) women have been ridiculed in every time period.

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.

i think its a.

an ugly duckling is teased by the other ducklings. when she grows up, however, the ducklings discover that she is a beautiful swan