Areasonable theme that can be supported by the text of "the masque of the red death" is
(a) instead of the sick, it is best to protect yourself from them
(b) disease and death treat both the rich and the poor the same
(c) celebrations are good escape from stress of the world
(d) the rich and powerful don't face the same consequences as everybody else

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt