What modernist theme does the excerpt highlight?
mrs. dalloway
by virginia woolf (excerpt)
she felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. she sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. she had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. how she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge fräulein daniels gave them she could not think. she knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of peter, she would not say of herself, i am this, i am that.
a. the rejection of tradition
b. meaning in the absence of god
c. skepticism about absolute truths
d. the search for self
e. the question of reality

The answer is D: The search for self.

Although this is not an exclusively literary modernist theme, it sure was one of the main themes that Virginia Woolf, one of the most notable modernist writers, developed. Throughout this novel, and specifically in the excerpt cited, Mrs. Dalloway, as well as many other female and male characters, continually expose their train of thoughts (“stream of consciousness” as it usually is called in literary studies) as the struggle to identify their personal subjectivity, showing a constant struggle and an intermittent quest for one´s own self.  

D. the search for self

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

which statement best expresses the theme of this short story the value of being confused