Question

As long as bread and good red wine remained to keep the men up, and appease their craving, they would not touch the cattle. But in the end, when all the barley in the ship was gone, so hunger drove them to scour the wild shore with angling hooks, for fishes and seafowl, whatever fell into their hands; and lean days wore their bellies thin. What theme is best revealed by this conflict

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is A

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Answer 2

Answer:

It is easy to uphold morals when one is not suffering.

Explanation:

It was easy to for the men to refrain themselves while they had plenty of food. However, once the supplies of wine and bread became scarce the men reverted to their basic urges and indiscriminately targeted anything they could use as a source of nourishment.