When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one that ever was; and so he went on a-bragging about the tragedy, and about edmund kean the elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expectations up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow. and—but never mind the rest of his outfit; it was just wild, but it was awful funny. which best describes the source of the humor in this excerpt

Your question does not include the options to choose from, which are the following:

the fact that the place was packed

the duke's speech to the audience

the image of the king performing

the audience's high expectations

the image of the king performing

Explanation:

In the except from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the author Mark Twain makes reference to the king's bizarre performance. In that respect, after the place is full of men, the king stops selling tickets at the door and goes on stage. There he makes a little speech about his tragedy, and one whe raises the audience's expectations, he rolls up the curtain and shows off naked and painted in different colors, which the public considers hilarious.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

i believe it is he has been given the drum as a joke.