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4.Lines 95–110: What is Prose’s purpose in writing the literary criticism and in including this passage from Miep Gies’s memoir?
I saw that Anne was writing intently,
and hadn’t heard me. I was quite close to
her and was about to turn and go when
she looked up, surprised, and saw me
standing there. In our many encounters
over the years, I’ d seen Anne, like a
chameleon, go from mood to mood, but
always with friendliness. …But I saw a
look on her face at this moment that I’ d
never seen before. It was a look of dark
concentration, as if she had a throbbing
headache. The look pierced me, and I
was speechless. She was suddenly another
person there writing at that table.

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