Explain the probable allusion in the line "the minister and she would need the whole wide world to breathe in."

Answer :

Cambridge English Dictionary defines "allusion" as "something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person:"

The line "the minister and she would need the whole wide world to breathe in"  from "Scarlet Letter" is an example of the this literary device.

This line refers to the time when Hester is having an affair with the minister. She feels more comfortable meeting him in the forest where they could be away from the prying eyes of the people and there was no question of intimacy. She says that she feels no sense of guilt while meeting him out in the open forest where she can breathe freely in the open air without the fear of being judged.

answer: life tends to copy things that already exists rather than taking old ides and making it into something new

explanation:

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.