Which answer best summarizes the events from the poem contained in the following lines?
"then came to the building the warrior marching,
bereft of his joyance. the door quickly opened
on fire–hinges fastened, when his fingers had touched it;
the fell one had flung then—his fury so bitter—
open the entrance."
a. beowulf opens the door of the mead–hall and finds grendel waiting.
b. grendel arrives and rips open the door of the mead–hall.
c. beowulf keeps the door of the mead–hall closed as grendel tries to enter.
d. grendel tries to break down the door of the mead–hall but fails.

1. both men a determined to break douglass.

2. douglass is still considered to be one of captain anthony's possessions.

3. douglass escapes to freedom in the north and changes his name.

4. the events are usually written from a distance in time.

5. the recording of events in chronological order.

agamemnon was the leader of the greek troops in the trojan wars and orestes was his son. when agamemnon returned from the war, he was murdered by his wife's lover in conjunction with his wife. orestes could not stop them but he seeked vengeance for his father. after a long time, he found them and avenged his father while killing them. he killed his mother, but greek mythology claims that his act was just and he was spared the remorse and the guilt. there are a lot of similarities with the ulysses/telemachus father son pair. ulysses was also one of the leaders of the excursion to troy. he still has not returned home, but in a sense the suitors of penelope are marring his estate and his reputation. while penelope is faithful to ulysses, the suitors by taking hold of the palace and committing their shameful acts are dishonoring ulysses. in the same context, telemachus is asked just like orestes to restitution his father's honor, regardless of whether he is alive or dead. athena is him and encouraging him with this example and he himself feels the need to save his father