A) The men oppose Boadicea without realizing how tough she is.
C) The men's cruel attitude at home makes them misjudge Boadicea.
The excerpt is an example of stream of consciousness as an experimental narrative form.
We are transported into the mind of Septimus, and words such as wavered, quivered, burst, and throb give us a sense of his state of mind. He has recently returned from the war but is clearly suffering post-traumatic stress, as depicted in this scene.
The scene is reminiscent of Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming," specifically the line: Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned."
Answer: 3. As the narrator also believes, the lines suggest that no place can ever compare to a person’s homeland.
Explanation: it explains how they can’t compare homesick man to a persons homeland.
