Read the excerpt from Blanca Flor.
Why does the author include a narrator at this point of the
play?
As soon as JUANITO is asleep, BLANCA FLOR gently
puts his head down and leaves, taking the thimble with
her.)
The Narrator. When Juanito awoke, he frantically looked
for the thimble and, not finding it, ran to the lake. When he
reached the lake, he stood at its banks in amazement. All
the water was gone. He looked over to the other part of
the field, and there stood a lake where before there was
nothing. He turned to look for Blanca Flor, but instead
there was Don Ricardo.
to explain what happens before Don Ricardo enters the
stage
to show that Juanito emptied all of the water from the
lake
to describe how Juanito feels at this moment
to reveal what Don Ricardo has been doing all this time
(DON RICARDO enters.]
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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion