The Ramayana, like Homer's Odyssey, is an epic poem that recounts the adventures of a hero who goes into exile and eventually returns home to regain his rightful throne. While away from the place of the familiar, Rama and Odysseus meet strangers who help or threaten them, who endow them with powers or test their strength and virtue. Consider the many similarities between Rama and Odysseus. What makes them both epic heroes? How do their encounters with the unfamiliar or their wanderings test and help to form their characters? Do they display love in similar or different ways?

Benvolio: part, fools! put up your swords; you know not what you do. [beats down their swords.] enter tybalt. tybalt: what! art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? turn thee, benvolio, look upon thy death. benvolio: i do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me. tybalt: what! drawn, and talk of peace? i hate the word, as i hate hell, all montagues, and thee. have at thee, coward! [they fight.] —romeo and juliet, william shakespeare make an inference about the motivation behind each character’s actions in this earlier scene from the play. why does benvolio beat down their swords? a) he wants to be the one to fight b) he is angry that his servant is quarrelling c) he wants there to be peace why does tybalt draw his sword and fight? a) he is motivated by anger at his servants b) he is motivated by hatred of the montegues c) he is motivated by jealousy of benvolio and the awnser is not agressive. just a reminder to yall who put in the word agressive in alot of questions like mine. as the correct awnser