Please discuss ONE of the following questions related to the themes and topics of Beowulf. Please make sure you use correct grammar, and discuss it using specific instances/examples from the text. -Do you think that Beowulf's pride ended up being a tragic flaw? (a tragic flaw is a character trait that leads to a character's downfall) Why or why not?

- Why do you think that it took hundreds of years for the Beowulf poem to become popular? (remember the lecture that mentions the Sutton Hoo Archaeological dig)

- What stands out the most to you throughout the tale of Beowulf? Does it remind you of anything else you've read/seen before?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive