(45 points answer ! ) from "hamlet," act 2

is it not monstrous that this player here,
but in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
could force his soul so to his own conceit
that from her working all his visage wanned,
tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
a broken voice, and his whole function suiting
with forms to his conceit? and all for nothing—
for hecuba!
what’s hecuba to him or he to hecuba
that he should weep for her? what would he do
had he the motive and the cue for passion
that i have? he would drown the stage with tears
and cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
make mad the guilty and appall the free,

in this scene, hamlet considers the performance of an actor, and reaches the conclusion that
a) he is really only an actor himself.
b) he is a better actor than the actor.
c) the actor's performance is unconvincing.
d) he has greater cause to be upset than the actor.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man