Helmer: what sort of an expression is that to use about our marriage?

nora [undisturbed]: i mean that i was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. you arranged everything according to your own taste, and so i got the same tastes as you—or else i pretended to, i am really not quite sure which—i think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. when i look back on it, it seems to me as if i had been living here like a poor woman—just from hand to mouth. i have existed merely to perform tricks for you, torvald. but you would have it so. you and papa have committed a great sin against me. it is your fault that i have made nothing of my life.

helmer: how unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, nora!

–a doll’s house,
henrik ibsen

what evidence from the text best supports the theme that the oppressed live unsatisfying lives? check all that apply.

“i was simply transferred from papa’s hands into yours.”
“i had been living here like a poor woman.”
“i have existed merely to perform tricks for you.”
“it is your fault that i have made nothing of my life.”
“how unreasonable and how ungrateful you are.”

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings