"my mistress — who, as the reader has already seen, had begun to teach me — was suddenly checked in her benevolent design, by the strong advice of her husband." what is the meaning of benevolent as it is used in the sentence?

caliban is prospero's slave in the shakespear's play "the tempest"

i think it may be b, i'm not exactly too sure on this. but b seems to make more sense.

the main character of "the secret life of walter mitty" retreats into a false pretense as a means escape from his mundane reality -- this is a flagrant issue seen in societies abroad, typically found in young adults and it is robbing our youths of their childhood.

explanation:

a thesis -- a well developed, formal thesis is required to be one sentence long. there are many themes in "the secret life of walter mitty" and i had resolved to give you one of the simpler ones while still honing it with class.

the answer is allusion. give me brainliest