Read this passage from Beowulf, in which Wiglaf, one of Beowulf s men, speaks to his companion as Beowulf battles the dragon. Wiglaf then joins Beowulf and addresses him

How might a listener feel about his or her griefs after hearing the wife's lament

The lines "original! we're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. we're like patterns stencilled on a wall. can't you and i strike out for ourselves, may? " reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century american literature?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.