Can you think an example from history, literature, or your personal experience in which someone failed to act because they feared backlash due to prejudice?

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.

the negative way that it shaped life was by having a feudal system where only the nobles and the christian church while it was oppressive to the peasants and specially to women. the positive way that it shape life is by introducing the artisan class when the feudal system fell. it change the attitudes towards religion and it also introduced what was known as knightly chivalry.

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