Read the speech from the play the importance of being earnest.

gwendolen. yes, i am quite well aware of the fact. and i often wish that in public, at any rate, you had been more demonstrative. for me you have always had an irresistible fascination. even before i met you i was far from indifferent to you. [jack looks at her in amazement.] we live, as i hope you know, mr. worthing, in an age of ideals. the fact is constantly mentioned in the more expensive monthly magazines, and has reached the provincial pulpits, i am told; and my ideal has always been to love some one of the name of ernest.

gwendolen implies that she believes that living by one’s ideals means

which response accurately completes the sentence?

the importance of being earnest

(a) meeting one’s set goals for the future, even if they are arbitrary
(b) removing oneself from situations in which others act immorally
(c) living an independent life in which one can make one’s own choices
(d) sacrificing all other sources of happiness until love is found

What is the cause of romeos despair?

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Where did moon shadow’s father get the name windrider?