Read this passage from Through the Looking-Glass.

"My NAME is Alice, but—”

"It's a stupid enough name!” Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?”

"MUST a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.

"Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "MY name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.”

The tone of this excerpt shows that Humpty Dumpty is

inexperienced
jealous.
impatient.
uncomfortable.

i'd say the answer is nuisance. i hope i .

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

queen elizabeth's purpose in the passage is;

d. to persuade the troops that she is a capable commander

"i have the heart and stomach of a king. i myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder."