Read this excerpt from King Arthur's Socks: A Comedy in One Act. VIVIEN: I never wanted anything badly enough to cry for it before. But I could cry my heart out for him. I've

absolutely no pride left. Well I'm going to have him, that's all. (She throws her cigarette into the grate, and

starts to go.)

What do the stage directions reveal about Vivien?

O They suggest Vivien's frustration with her friend.

O They demonstrate Vivien's carelessness,

O They illustrate Vivien's flaunting of convention

O They emphasize Vivien's adamant decision.

They emphasize Vivien's adamant decision.

Explanation:

The stage directions revealed that Vivien has made an adamant decision. In this case, we can deduce that Vivien was going to do everything possible in order to get him.

This can be seen when she said that even though she had never wanted anything badly enough before but that this time, she could cry her heart out for him with no pride left and that she was going to have him.

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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.