Reread this passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. He said, "If you give a slave an inch, he will take a mile. A slave should know nothing but to obey his master--to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best slave in the world.
What is the connotative meaning of spoil, as it is used in this passage?

A. increase the positive qualities in something rarely used
B. turn something really good into something totally worthless
C. cause someone to expect more than he or she has earned
D. slightly reduce the usefulness of something used often

the answer would be B

Explanation:

I got it right on my test so I mean it has to be right.

the second option.is correct

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.