Answer:
Soldiers must be wary of their enemies.
Explanation:
In the excerpt, after Odysseus's men think they've won, they let the fugitives go in land. The fugitives then go get the Cicones' army. The army comes down to the beach and wipes out Odysseus's men. Since Odysseus's men underestimated the enemy, they are destroyed. Therefore, the best theme of this excerpt is that soldiers must be wary of their enemies. Even though the men do reap the benefits of their initial victory by gaining stores of wine and mutton, they do not leave the beach alive. The fugitives are not isolated because they have an entire army the run to for help. The only mention of horses is that the army can fight on horseback or on foot. This is not enough to develop a theme.
Romeo and Juliet is a play about the conflict between the main characters’ love, with its transformative power, and the darkness, hatred, and selfishness represented by their families’ feud. The two teenaged lovers, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love the first time they see each other, but their families’ feud requires they remain enemies. Over the course of the play the lovers’ powerful desires directly clash with their families’ equally powerful hatred of each other. Initially, we may expect that the lovers will prove the unifying force that unites the families. Were the play a comedy, the families would see the light of reason and resolve their feud, Romeo and Juliet would have a public wedding, and everyone would live happily ever after. But the Montague-Capulet feud is too powerful for the lovers to overcome. The world of the play is an imperfect place, where freedom from everything except pure love is an unrealistic goal. Ultimately, the characters love does resolve the feud, but at the price of their lives
