Betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely out of the nurses' charge.' that was about the next reference to the position of women is some two hundred years later. 'it was still the exception for women of the upper and middle class to choose their own husbands, and when the husband had been assigned, he was lord and master. yet even so, professor trevelyan concludes, 'neither shakespeare's women nor those of authentic seventeenth-century memoirs seem wanting in personality and character.' which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt to develop? o a. women were not respected in literature but were given enormous respect in real life. o b. women were represented as being weak in literature but were granted great power in real life. o c. women were not represented in literature but had great impact on society in real life. o d. women were represented as being strong in literature but were not allowed power in real life im

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

Select all of the correct answers. what arguments does susan b. anthony make in this excerpt from her speech?

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.