What does Shadwell swear he will maintain until his death?ingenuitycompassioncuriositydullnessNEXT QUESTION

Read the lines from “Mac Flecknoe” and answer the question.Sinking he left his drugget robe behind,Born upwards by a subterranean wind.The mantle fell to the young prophet's part,With double portion of his father's art. (lines 214–217)These lines represent Shadwellrejecting his newly acquired role as king.carrying on his father’s tradition of mediocre writing.being frightened of the responsibility on him.having twice as much literary talent as his father.NEXT QUESTION

Though he now is to have wealth and education, why is Pip discontented?

In Malcolm Cowley's "The View from 80," what is NOT a sign he's getting older?Group of answer choicesHe has butterfingers (drops toothbrush, etc.)His bones acheIt becomes harder to bear in mind two things at onceHe has flatulence all day

The stories make us question the search for a stable meaning in life, often highlighting existential moments of despondency and emptiness. This is rather poignantly asserted by Kersi when he says, “Failure to swim through filth must mean something other than failure of rebirth─ failure of symbolic death? Does that equal success of symbolic life? death of a symbolic failure? death of a symbol? What is the equation?”53 As much as this seems like a complex mathematical equation, it can be understood in simpler terms. These lines are uttered by him when he completely abandons the idea of pursuing his swimming class, with the sheer disappointment that they had resulted in, as discussed earlier. Here he is comparing the swimming pool with Chaupatty beach and its filth, in that, both had resulted in his failure to swim through them, but with a difference. He says “the swimming pool, like Chaupatty beach, has produced a stillbirth”54, for if water symbolizes “regeneration only if it is pure and cleansing”55 failure to swim through clear water must equate to “failure of rebirth”56 and logically then the “failure of symbolic death”57, where rebirth is nothing but symbolic death. This leads us on to logically concur that this must imply through a use of double negative a balanced equation, which can be seen as “success of symbolic life”58 or in other words by reversing each again “death of a symbolic failure”59 with the obvious play of words and syntax by the writer. Clearly then does this draw the questionable inference of the very “death of a symbol” 60 , for logically “death of a symbolic failure” would mean literally and metaphorically the very “death of the symbol”, which ceases to exist and represent anything as a symbol. The equation seems to him only too perplexing and baffling, where seeing it in reductive terms only further increases the angst , sense of hopelessness, futility and vacuity. This attempts to highlight in plain terms, the existential travails of humankind in the modern day world, fraught with an endless search for meaning, but often leading one eventually to only sheer exasperation and cynicism. convert it into easy english

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