Which passage from grendel best illustrates the theme "life is meaningless"? a. be so kind as to give / us some advice, old man. we've come on a fairly important errand. (154) b. i kiss the ice on the frozen creeks, i press my ear to it, honoring the water that rattles below, for by water they came. (151) c. except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. the hero sees values beyond what's possible. that's the nature of a hero. (89) d. and yet i address him, whispering, whimpering, whining. "if you win, it's by mindless chance. make no mistake." (171)

The correct answer is D.

This passage from "Grendel" reflects the theme "life is meaningless" because through it, we can understand that the speaker is allowing his oponent to win. That him wining would not be because of his streng and ability, but because of the speaker's loss of his will to live.

answer: this is not a good thesis statement because a thesis statement is not supposed to have questions in it. a thesis states your position on your topic. a question cannot state anything because it is not a statement. a question is a great lead in to a thesis, but it can't be the thesis.

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.