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In Act 5, Scene 3 of The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare adapted and transformed the resolution of the plot in Ovid’s “Pygmalion and Galatea” by contrasting the initial meeting of the young sculptor and his marble creation with _________.

A. the discovery that a long-lost child is alive
B. the admission of a husband that he wronged his wife
C. the reuniting of a husband and wife long ago parted
D. the passing of the kingdom to an heir