Answer:
A. Sewing can be a time-consuming task.
Explanation:
Time-consuming means something that takes a lot of time to do, the only answer choice that makes sense is A. If John finished his homework in 10 minutes, it could not have been time-consuming. A clock is an inanimate object, it cannot be time-consuming, if she has a party to get to, she probably wouldn't want to have homework that takes time to do.
I agree with the other person - pride is something that Hrothgar cautions Beowulf against. Excessive pride (also known as hubris in Anglo-Saxon poetry) is not a desirable characteristic that a leader/warrior should have because it will lead them to their demise in the end. This is what happened to Beowulf ultimately - he thought he could defeat the dragon in his old age because of his hubris, and because of it, he died.
Symbol Analysis
Obviously she's the main character and a huge part of this poem, but is the Lady of Shalott a major image? Lancelot is almost buried in description, but we hear almost nothing about the Lady herself. Hair color, eyes, height? Those things aren't all crucial, but they'd help us to build a mental picture of our main character. In some ways, it feels like the speaker is trying to hold back an image of the Lady, to make her deliberately hard to imagine.
<span><span>Line 18: The first time we hear her name is as the closing line of the second stanza. We're going to hear the same thing a lot more before the poem is over. The Lady's name is a refrain that the speaker uses over and over. Her name almost starts to hypnotize us, like a magical spell.</span><span>Line 71: Don't worry, we won't take you through all of the spots where the poem talks about the Lady, but we thought this one was worth mentioning. This is the place where the Lady admits her frustration with her life, and says she is "half sick of shadows." While we still don't get an image of her face, we can feel the strength of her personality in this moment, a glimmer of the independence and strong will that is about to blossom.</span><span>Line 153: This is the end of the Lady's transformation, the moment of her death. She has moved from slavery and imprisonment to freedom, but it has cost her everything. Before she sang, now she is quiet. She was warm, now she is frozen. All of these are powerful images of loss and change. Eventually she becomes a sort of statue, a pale shape in a coffin-like boat.</span></span>
The first thing you should do is study the stage settings. This is commonly found at the beginning of each act and can help you understand the characters better, as scenery is often used to depict the characters' state of mind and way of life.
A) England needs manners, freedom, and power.
