read the excerpt from act ii of  hamlet.ophelia: alas! my lord, i have been so affrighted.polonius: with what, in the name of god? ophelia: my lord, as i was sewing in my closet,  lord hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac'd;   no hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd,  ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;   pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;   and with a look so piteous in purport  as if he had been loosed out of hell  to speak of horrors, he comes before me.what is the most likely reason shakespeare included this passage? he explains hamlet’s behavior through ophelia’s dialogue, thereby tying up loose ends in the plot. he introduces the conflict between ophelia and hamlet, thereby adding suspense and advancing the plot. he characterizes the relationship between ophelia and polonius, thereby adding to the exposition in the plot. he describes the background between ophelia and hamlet, thereby escalating the tension to its highest point in the plot.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning