When she saw pyrrhus make malicious sport in mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs, the instant burst of clamour that she made— unless things mortal move them not at all— would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, and passion in the gods. what does the excerpt about hecuba suggest about her state of mind? a) she is confused by the sight of her murdered husband. b)she is deeply distraught by the sight of her murdered husband. c)she is unaffected by the sight of her murdered husband. d)she is joyful at the sight of her murdered husband.

the excerpt about Hecuba suggest about her state of mind that she is deeply distraught by the sight of her murdered husband. (Option B)

If we look at some certain lines in the question above like “Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven” and “the passion of the gods”

This shows that Hecuba was in great pain, because she saw the sword that was in the limbs of her husband

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.