Question

Part A What inference can be drawn about the king's servant in The Beggar and the King? He knows more about the beggar than the king does. He is very upset by the king's selfishness. He plans to steal food from the king to feed the beggar. He himself once ruled the kingdom. Question 2 Part B Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A? "THE KING: He is very unwise to annoy me on such a warm day." "THE KING: Then bind him and gag him if necessary." "THE SERVANT: O king, thy orders were obeyed even yesterday." "THE SERVANT: They cut out his tongue, but he immediately grew another."

Answer 1

Part A: He is very upset by the king's selfishness.

Part B: THE SERVANT: O king, thy orders were obeyed even yesterday."

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Part A: He is very upset by the king's selfishness.

Part B: THE SERVANT: O king, thy orders were obeyed even yesterday."

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Beggar and the King" is a one-act play, featuring a very selfish king, who orders a servant to tell the royal guard to torture a beggar in every way possible, so that this beggar stops asking food and be annoying the king. The servant, very uncomfortable with the king's orders, claims that all torture was done with the beggar, who was even killed by the royal guard, but none of this is capable of stopping the beggar's voice from crying for food.

This reinforces the responsibility of a government official with his people, who, even humiliated and tortured, are not able to remain silent while calling for their rights.