Both fables and legends are literary genres that are used to narrate stories. Fables are fictional stories whose characters are animals, plants or inanimate objects. Legends, on the other hand, are stories perceived or believed to have happened some time in human history and there is certain doubt if it really happened.
Fables are meant to provide a moral lesson at the end whereas legends are meant to provide human values or qualities.
An example of fable is “The Tortoise and the Hare” by Aesop. The main characters are the tortoise and the hare and a moral message is provided at the end.
An example of a legend is Robin Hood. Even though Robin Hood might have existed, the stories about him might not be all real.
<u><em>In Coleridge’s poem the story is told by the Ancient mariner himself to an unwilling listener on his way to a wedding. During a voyage his ship was driven by a storm towards the South pole and caught in floating ice.
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<u><em>Suddenly an albatross arrived and the sailors hailed it as a sign of good luck, soon after the ice split, the wind blew and the ship, followed by the bird sailed north until the Mariner shot the albatross without a reason. The ship arrived to the Equator where the wind dropped. </em></u>
<u><em>The Mariner and the crew were immobile, the water supply ran out, they saw disgusting water snakes crawling on the surface of the sea. The sailor blamed the mariner and hung around his neck the body of the albatross to remind him of his evil deed. After that a skeleton of a ship arrived with Spectre- Woman and Life-in- Death as the only crew. Life- in-dead won the Mariner and then the Mariner’s shipmates died and so the mariner was left alone, trying to pray but he couldn’t.
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<u><em>So the dead bodies of his shipmates inhabited by angelic spirits began to work again and the ship moved to the Mariner’s native land. The Mariner was safe but he had a penance, actually he was condemned to wander through the world, relate his tale for all the eternity.
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Answer:
B). Men made the decisions regarding marriage and women did not.
C). Women's feelings about love were not traditionally considered.
D). Women in traditional society wanted to change their role.
Explanation:
The passage displays how women were traditionally considered inferior sex. They had been marginalized and suppressed for years and the passage aims to display that the women did not have an equal right to choose their life partners as the men had. Their emotions of love were not taken into consideration but the men possessed this right too. Basically, the women were the victims of gender discrimination in the traditional society and thus, they had an innate desire to change their role in society and get equal rights. Thus, <u>options B, C, and D</u> are the correct answers.
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I became, in short, the gangling farmer-boy my aunt had known, C. Scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and raw from corn husking.
Scourge is something that causes suffering.</span>