English, 23.11.2020 04:50 MalikaJones

Use the following excerpt from Homer's The Odyssey to answer this question. "The hero paused, and ponder'd this request, while love and duty warr'd within his breast. At length resolved, he turn'd his ready hand"
In this passage the hero (Odysseus) is faced with one of the most basic dilemmas of the human condition. What are the two human emotions that have "war'd within his breast?"

a. Fear (whether he should go to war) and duty (such as serving his family)
b. Duty (such as toward his personal ambitions) or duty (such as for his country)
c. Love (such as for his wife) and duty (such as toward serving his country)
d. Humanity (such as love of others) and War (represented by his "ready hand")

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