Why do you think the reaction was less intense when the brown-eyed children were named the "superior" group in Jane Elliot's experiment?

The brown eyed children had already gone through the experiment and understood firsthand how hurtful it was to be called inferior.

Explanation:

c is the correct answer

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.