Excerpt from act i, scene 1, in a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare theseus now, fair hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. four happy days bring in another moon. but, o, methinks how slow this old moon wanes! she lingers my desires like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man’s revenue. what does theseus mean by "she lingers my desires / like to a stepdame or a dowager / long withering out a young man’s revenue"? a. in a few days, you will not be a stepdame or dowager any more. b. i’m as impatient as a young man who has to wait for his inheritance. c. we can’t get married until my stepmother arrives. d. when we get married, i will feel like the richest man in the world because i have you.

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.

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