Read the following excerpt from hamlet: act ii, scene 2 guildenstern prison, my lord? hamlet denmark’s a prison. rosencrantz then is the world one. hamlet a goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, denmark being one o' th' worst. rosencrantz we think not so, my lord. hamlet why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. to me it is a prison. rosencrantz why then, your ambition makes it one. 'tis too narrow for your mind. based on this passage from hamlet, how would you describe hamlet's personality/character at this moment in the play? question 1 options: he is excited for what is coming next he is scared of the king's revenge he is in love but she doesn't love him back he feels trapped by his current situation

Consider the last two lines of the poem again. why do you think the old woman sees herself as a terrible fish? why did she choose to compare her to a fish? why do you think she chose to use the word "terrible"? write your answer in two hundred words.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

How and why does king use the word redemptive to link the concepts of freedom and religious faith