Lakshmi’s summer camp is turning the fairy tale “Rapunzel” into a staged drama. Compare the original tale to her adaptation: Original:

How can you dare, said she with an angry look, descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief? You shall suffer for it. Ah, answered he, let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat. Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, if the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world.

–Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Rapunzel.” Grimms' Fairy Tales

Adaptation:

ENCHANTRESS: (furiously) Stealing the rampion from my garden, right under my nose? How dare you!

MAN: (desperately) Please forgive me! I know I stole from you; but I only did it because I absolutely had to!

ENCHANTRESS: Had to steal? Ridiculous!

MAN: But I did have to! My wife needed the plant so badly that she was dying! I couldn’t just let her die!

ENCHANTRESS: Fine. Take it! Take all of it, see if I care. But in return . . . you’re going to give me your kid.

Which of the following best describes Lakshmi’s adaptation?

A.
The adaptation shortens and revises the dialogue from the original, making the scene less formal.
B.
The adaptation adds an extra conflict that was not in the original, making the scene more terrifying.
C.
The adaptation adds funny dialogue that was not in the original, making the scene more humorous.
D.
The adaptation reverses the characters’ positions from the original, making the scene more dramatic.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

answer; i believe that the correct answer is (scientific data);

where is the passage at?