In "We Wear the Mask," people suffer because life is painful and people hide their pain from the world. Dunbar writes the "clay is vile" beneath their feet, implying life on earth is hard and difficult. They do not change their situations because they cannot -- it is implied that to live is to suffer. In the poem these people appeal to Christ to save them.
In "Sympathy," the bird suffers because it is caged. It sees the beauty of the world around it but it cannot participate in it. The bird cannot change its situation because it is literally imprisoned. The caged bird appeals in its pain to Heaven, hoping God will relive its suffering.
Answer to P1 (details to part 2 should be in the comments soon enough)
In the story, Antigone, the protagonist, develops as a result of her statements regarding the death of her brother. She speaks to her sister about burying their brother who was dishonored by Creon, which is how the author develops and introduces the characters to the audience.
If this is a true/false question, then yes, alienation is definitely a major theme in Modernist literature. They felt like they didn't belong in the society, they were strangers, or aliens, therefore that was an important theme implemented in their literature.
Answer:
Quite.
Explanation:
An adverb is one of the parts of speech in English language and it can be defined as a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Some examples are slowly, quickly, brightly, sadly, etc.
Hence, the word "quite" in the statement; "I don’t think it was a difficult test. In fact, I think it was quite easy." is an adverb.
In this scenario, quite modifies the adjective easy and it simply means the test was not difficult.
The correct answer should be Collectivism
The excerpt claims that people were put down using words like we and working together. The excerpt claims that individualism was destroyed that way.
