Read the passage. alexander dumas’s novel the count of monte cristo is set in france in the early 1800s during napoleon bonaparte’s reign, exile, and brief return to power. edmond dantès is the first mate on the ship the pharaon. while at sea, the captain dies, and dantès brings the ship safely into port. the ship’s owner is impressed by dantès's performance and promotes him. dantès is thrilled and is anxious to marry his beloved mercédès who lives in the spanish district of les catalans. danglars, the ship’s accountant, envies dantès’s success. fernand, a local fisherman, is jealous because he is in love with mercédès. the two men accuse dantès of treason, and he is sentenced to prison. according to details in this excerpt, which cultural experience do mercédès and fernand most likely have in common? a. caring only about the present, without considering what the future may hold b. feeling that love is the most important thing in young people's lives c. living in a small community that has little contact with the surrounding peoples d. surviving on the charity of other people because of poverty

What attitude of the aristocracy is illustrated by lady bracknell's lines in the play?

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

What does atticus do after sunday dinner and why does it seem unusual