assage Poems
Sreat Expectations, a novel written by Charles Dickens
1812-1870) is influenced by the rigid class structure of
Victorian England in this excerpt a young orphan named
Pip is sent to visit a wealthy, eccentric woman named Miss
Havisham to entertain her Unknown to Pip Miss Havisham
was left at the altar on the day of her wedding many years
before She has lived ever since as if time had stopped at
that fateful hour
Excerpt from Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
...In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on
the table and her head leaning on that hand,
sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or
shall ever see
She was dressed in rich materials,-satins, and
lace, and silks-all of white.
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Refer to the Poems. Which statement below BEST
describes how Shakespeare transforms a topic
found in Ovid's poem?
Shakespeare transforms the idea of the renewal of
time into the idea of the forward motion of time.
Shakespeare transforms the idea of time standing
still into the idea of time repeating itself
Shakespeare transforms the idea of time
accelerating into the idea of time moving
backward.
Shakespeare transforms the idea of the
narrowness of time into the idea of the
limitlessness of time.