Read this passage from frankenstein
from the side where i now stood montanvert was exactly
the opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose
mont blanc. i remained in a recess of the rock, gazing
on this wonderful and stupendous scene. the sea, or
rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent
mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.
their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the
clouds. my heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled
with something like joy
what does the setting of this passage most clearly convey about nature?
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a. that it is destructive
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b. that it is frightening
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c. that it causes loneliness
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d. that it has restorative powers

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion