Answer:
C
Explination: The theme is the lesson that the author is trying to teach the reader.
Found one: <span> The great black forest--stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom--became the playmate of the lonely infant, as well as it knew how.</span>
The correct answer is the first new nation based on the values of equality, individualism, and personal freedom
It was the first democratic country that was not ruled by a king and it valued democracy, not hereditary aristocracy or anything of the sort.