Read the excerpts from " The Royal House of Thebes " and " The Story of a Warrior Queen ."Ismene weeping came from the palace to stand with her sister. "I helped do it," she said. But Antigone would not have that. "She had no share in it," she told Creon. And she bade her sister say no more. "Your choice was to live," she said, "mine to die."–"The Royal House of Thebes"When the Roman soldiers burst in upon them, they found the great queen dead, with her daughters in her arms.She had poisoned both herself and them, rather than that they should fall again into the hands of the Romans.–"The Story of a Warrior Queen"
How would the end of the fairy tale "Cinderella" most likely change if the prince were not motivated to find the owner of the glass slipper?
Read the sentence from "The Crab That Played with the Sea.”Now, while the two were talking together, Pau Amma the Crab, who was next in the game, scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea, saying to himself, ‘I will play my play alone in the deep waters, and I will never be obedient to this son of Adam.’The underlined words are an example of
Read the excerpt from "How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale."What compelled the Grimms to concentrate on old German epics, tales, and literature was a belief that the most natural and pure forms of culture—those which held the community together—were linguistic and based in history. According to them, modern literature, even though it might be remarkably rich, was artificial and thus could not express the genuine essence of Volk culture that emanated naturally from experience and bound the people together. Therefore, all their efforts went toward uncovering stories from the past.
Which actions best support the theme that lust for power is stronger than family ties? Select two options.
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