Texts: The Iliad by Homer, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, The Aeneid by Virgil, Beowulf, The Inferno by Dante, medieval romance, Hamlet by WIlliam Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by Cervantes Several of the texts in this course discuss the conflict between fate and free will. Choose two of the texts we have read and compare and contrast how the main characters of each grapple with their limited free will.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?