Read the question carefully and select the best answer.
The speaker mentions Tantalus and Sisyphus in the passage below (lines 5-8) mainly to
Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus
Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare
If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus
To struggle up a never-ending stair.
A give examples from mythology of people being cruelly punished by gods
OB. discourage people from committing the kinds of crimes Tantalus and Sisyphus committed
OC show examples of God's mercy
D. All of the above