Question

Select two quotations that best support the theme of gaining one's freedom from

a life of oppression
She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to
possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will-as
powerless as her two white slender hands would have been
A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a
crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination
What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this
possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the
strongest impulse of her being!
She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender
hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love
upon her, fixed and gray and dead
There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind
persistence with which men and women believe they have a nght to
impose a private will upon a fellow creature

Answer 1

What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a nght to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.

Step-by-step explanation:

The two excerpts above impose a sense of knowledge, power and freedom. This is because we can see that the above excerpt shows a narrator free to act, feel and think according to his own conception and his own principles, using his own opinions. This ability is achieved when an individual is able to free himself from an interminably limiting and weighting oppression.