The plight that Hrothgar was facing was that of;
- Having his men eliminated by Grendel. At this point, he had lost a lot of men who dared to challenge Grendel. This can be deduced from his words to Beowulf in these lines;
<em>What grief in Heorot Grendel hath caused me, </em>
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What horror unlooked-for, by hatred unceasing.
Waned is my war-band, wasted my hall-troop;
<em>Weird hath offcast them to the clutches of Grendel.</em>
(Note that the English Language used here is not the contemporary version)
In these lines, Hrothgar laments the horror Grendel had caused in his rulership. He had caused him a lot of grief due to his constant attacks.
He explains to Beowulf that his war band was wasted and waned because of Grendel's consistent grip on them.
This was the expression of the king who was now tired of the acts of Grendel in his kingdom.
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Tell the truth
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Answer:
John Steinbeck.
Explanation:
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr, an American writer famous for his works on the lives of the people living during and around the Dust Bowl, said in his Nobel acceptance speech in 1962 that
"<em>The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement</em>."
His speech was a form of relaying a message that writers like him had to do in order to make known to people the various but harsh realities of life. His take on the migrant farmers' lives during the Dust Bowl in "The Grapes of Wrath" gave him a huge credit for revealing the truth and the lives led by these farmers.