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Which of these lines from the epitaph directly names Mr. Purkapile's attempt to end the marriage?

SHE loved me./Oh! how she loved me I never had a chance to escape

I then concluded our marriage/Was a divine dispensation

She might prove her mortality and let me out

Then I ran away and was gone a year on a lark.

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michelcecilia

The correct answer is lines: Oh! how she loved me I never had a chance to escape, and, Then I ran away and was gone a year on a lark.

Indeed, Mr. Purkapile uses the signal word “escape”, which implies that he sees his marriage as a prison. The line “how she loved me!” is meant to be ironic since it implies that his wife was overbearing and dominant and used love as an excuse to assert her domination of him.

The line, I ran away is quite explicit. It describes his flight from an oppressive marriage. Finally the line “on a lark” is very symbolic. Birds have been used by feminists since first wave feminism to symbolize the oppressed female spirit. The fact the he is using such line, conveys the fact that in his marriage the gender roles of domination have been inversed.

princesspokemon987

Answer:

Then I ran away and was gone a year on a lark.

Explanation:

His attempt of ending the marriage was by running away. The other answers don't describe how he planned to break free from the marriage, just that he wanted to be free from it.

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