Question

passage
poems
great 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 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.
shakespeare transforms the idea of time standing still into the idea of time repeating itself.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the options. First, recall Ovid's and Shakespeare's treatments of time. Miss Havisham’s time is “standing still” (frozen at her wedding day). The correct option should show a transformation of “time standing still” (Ovid - like, or the source) to “time repeating” (Shakespeare’s take, e.g., in sonnets or plays with cyclical time). Let's check each:

• Option 1: “renewal of time” to “forward motion” – not matching the “still” to “repeat” idea.
• Option 2: “accelerating” to “backward” – no basis, as the source (Ovid or the context) doesn’t have “accelerating” as the base.
• Option 3: “narrowness” to “limitlessness” – irrelevant to the “still vs repeat” theme.
• Option 4: “time standing still” (Miss Havisham’s frozen time, or Ovid’s static time concept) transformed into “time repeating itself” (Shakespeare’s use of cyclical/time - loop ideas, e.g., in sonnets or plays where time has a repetitive quality). This matches the transformation of a static time (standing still) to a repetitive one (repeating).

Answer:

Shakespeare transforms the idea of time standing still into the idea of time repeating itself. (The fourth option in the list of statements)