We made our prayers in that place to hecate and pluto, that they would be merciful. and we bathed the corpse with holy water . which best identifies and interprets the allusion in these lines? the allusion is to hecate and pluto, the gods of forgiveness; the sentry is implying that creon must show regret for his actions in order to be forgiven for his cruelty towards polyneices. these are the gods who sent teiresias the warning about creon's actions; this shows that the sentry believes teiresias is an impostor who lied about the message he received from the gods. the allusion is to hecate and pluto, which are the greek names for the afterlife; this implies that creon and his sentries are no longer welcome there because of how they have treated polyneices, haimon, and antigone. the allusion is to hecate, goddess of witchraft, and pluto, god of the underworld; the sentry is implying that they have tried to make amends by burying the corpse of polyneices in as respectful a manner as possible.

Select the correct text in the passage. which two sentences in this excerpt from f. scott fitzgerald's "winter dreams" seem to foreshadow dexter’s future obsession with “possessing” judy jones? now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained. they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

Wha is the topic discussed in “lifeboat ethics” ?

Why are reading and writing necessary in today’s world?