Read this excerpt from a doll's house by henrik ibsen.
nora: more than anyone else. i know you are my truest and best friend, and so i will tell you what it is. well, dr. rank, it is something you must me to prevent. you know how devotedly, how inexpressibly deeply torvald loves me; he would never for a moment hesitate to give his life for me.
rank: (leaning towards her) nora, do you think he is the only one?
nora: (with a slight start) the only one?
rank: the only one who would gladly give his life for your sake.
nora: (sadly) is that it?
rank: i was determined you should know it before i went away, and there will never be a better opportunity than this. now you know it, nora. and now you know, too, that you can trust me as you can trust no one else.
nora: (rises, deliberately and quietly) let me pass.
rank: (makes room for her to pass him, but sits still) nora.

why do you think nora stopped the conversation?

Collections grade 10 guiding questions collection 6 "letter from birmingham jail" by martin luther king jr lines 66-101 why might king have taken the time so early in the letter to delve into such minute details about steps taken and recent event in birmingham?

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

What difference do you notice between this passage and contemporary pose.