Question

What purpose does the Pope's comparison of the young woman with a list of unrelated figures, such as dying tyrants and scorned lovers, serve? A. It provides equal footing to all sorrows and proves none greater than the others. B. It undermines the sorrows of imprisoned kings, scornful spinsters, and unrepentant tyrants. C. It accentuates how the excessive grief over the loss of a snip of hair is inappropriate. D. It connects the young woman to a history of individuals who have faced injustice by the hand of fate.

Answer 1

A. It provides equal footing to all sorrows and proves none greater than the others.

Step-by-step explanation:

Pope Alexander, made a comparison where he showed a girl with a list of unrelated figures, such as dying tyrants and despised lovers, the Pope states that although the situations are different, the figures are just figures, that is, they are the same. With this, the Pope wanted to show that no matter the situation that led an individual to sadness, what matters is sadness itself, since in the end sadness is a feeling just like everyone, that is, all sadness is equals.