Gertrude: good hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
and let thine eye look like a friend on denmark.
do not for ever with thy vailed lids
seek for thy noble father in the dust:
thou know’st ’tis common; all that live must die,
passing through nature to eternity.

hamlet: ay, madam, it is common.

gertrude: if it be,
why seems it so particular with thee?

which is the best description of how gertrude is characterized in this passage?

gertrude is oblivious to her son’s grief and focuses on her own happiness.
gertrude is sympathetic of her son’s obvious distress and tries to comfort him. gertrude is critical of her son’s continued mourning and urges him to move on. gertrude is saddened by her son’s unhappiness and tries to distract him.

Constructed response paragraph: in the short story, the author describes her life during her “day away” but provides few details about her “normal” life. using information from the text, write a short story that describes events that precede the story above. as you detail the author’s daily routine before her “day away,” be sure your narrative establishes the story’s setting, first-person point of view, and primary conflict.

Discuss how hawthorne uses irony in "young goodman brown" to develop a theme or a character. your answer should be between 250 and 300 words.

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.