{ Mrs. Bullfrog} What is your opinion about Hawthorne's clearly laid out view, expressed as a simple rule, of what is required for a successful marriage? Do you think he was really serious or not very serious, when he made that rule so basic to the story of the Bullfrogs? How would you define "the real basis of matrimonial bliss"?

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

go to crash course lititure and go to seconed page and it shows a video about that

answer: the essay describes the experience of the english narrator, possibly orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in burma.

explanation:

absolutism the political belief that one ruler should hold all of the power within the boundaries of a country.