ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

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Read and analyze the excerpt below then answer the question which follows:Then Edgetho’s brave son spoke:“Remember, Hrothgar, O knowing king, now that my danger is near, the warm words we uttered, and if your enemy should end my life, then be, O generous prince, forever the father and protector of all whom I leave behind me, here in your hands, my beloved comrades left with no leader, their leader dead ____ “What Anglo-Saxon practice is evident in the underlined request that Beowulf is asking of King Hrothgar?
A
Flyting
B
Wergild
C
Lineage Invocation
D
Commitatus
E
Divine Intervention
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hrothgar is very pleased that Beowulf has arrived to help him. He believes that God sent him to save them from Grendel’s attacks. He is excited that Beowulf is there to help since he heard that Beowulf has the strength of about 30 men.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beowulf came on a ship with fourteen brave Geats. Beowulf was the son of Edgetho.

Detailed explanation-3: -This passage is the culmination of a long speech, often referred to as “Hrothgar’s sermon, ” in which Hrothgar warns Beowulf of the seductive dangers of success after Beowulf defeats Grendel’s mother. Hrothgar asserts that power causes the soul to grow distracted by fortune’s favor and so to lose sight of future perils.

Detailed explanation-4: –Beowulf goes to help Hrothgar because Hrothgar helped Beowulf’s father when Beowulf was a baby.-After Beowulf was born his father got into a war with another tribe’s warrior. The other warrior was killed by Ecgtheow (Beowulf’s father).

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