Read the following passage from act i, scene ii of the tempest, in which prospero explains to miranda how antonio usurped him.
prospero
my brother and thy uncle, call'd antonio—
i pray thee, mark me—that a brother should
be so perfidious! —he whom next thyself
of all the world i loved and to him put
the manage of my state; as at that time
through all the signories it was the first
and prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
in dignity, and for the liberal arts
without a parallel; those being all my study,
the government i cast upon my brother
and to my state grew stranger, being transported
and rapt in secret studies. thy false uncle—
(. .)
being once perfected how to grant suits,
how to deny them,
. . having both the key
of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
to what tune his ear; that now he was
the ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
and suck'd my verdure out on't.
(. .)
i, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
to closeness and the bettering of my mind
with that which, but by being so retired,
o'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
awaked an evil nature; and my trust,
like a good parent, did beget of him
a falsehood in its contrary as great
as my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
a confidence sans bound.

discuss prospero's attitude toward antonio and the impression of antonio and of himself that prospero wants to give miranda. then analyze which words and phrases in the passage convey that attitude and those impressions. be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the passage.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water