Read the excerpt from "Prometheus Unbound” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.[Prometheus.]No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt?I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun,Has it not seen? The Sea, in storm or calm,Heaven’s ever-changing Shadow, spread below,Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!**Jupiter has chained Prometheus to the face of a steep cliff to be tortured for all eternity as punishment for giving humans fire. (Note: Jupiter and Zeus are the same god; the only difference is the name. Jupiter is the supreme god in Roman mythology, and Zeus is the supreme god in Greek mythology.)Read the excerpt from Prometheus by Josephine Preston Peabody.At last that earlier enmity between the gods and the Titans came to an end. The banished rebels were set free from Tartarus, and they themselves came and besought their brother, Prometheus, to hear the terms of Zeus.
Answer
A
It rejects the theme because, in Peabody’s text, the conflict between the Titans and the gods ends and Prometheus is released.
B
It reinforces the theme because, in Peabody’s text, Prometheus chooses to remain chained to the precipice.
C
It maintains the theme because, in Peabody’s text, Prometheus escapes and avoids capture.
D
It challenges the theme because, in Peabody’s text, the Titans defeat the gods.