Which aspect of a short story would be featured most if the story were adapted to a play? The conflict
The dialogue
The format
The point of view

c. barbarians with unexpected intelligence  

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."