And If The Heart Cannot Love by Jose Garcia Villa and The Plighted Word by Narciso G. Reyes are literatures that come from different periods in Philippine History. Your task is to create your own symbol that you think represents these two literatures and explain in 3-5 sentences the reason behind that symbol.

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“cultural identities are formed and informed by a nation’s literature.” It's also suggested that an inverted version of this statement is equally true: a nation’s literature is formed and informed by its cultural identities. So in Task 1, I want you to draw on those two concepts (really two parts of a single whole) to explain what the monster Grendel represents in the poem. Please refer to at least two specific parts of Beowulf

Early English literature was written in Old English, which is vastly different from Modern English. Often, these texts are translated into more accessible language for modern readers. When reading these older forms of English, it can be difficult to understand the meaning, even if the language has been modified. In your opinion, what makes this literature so difficult to read? Is it the vocabulary, the characters, the type of storytelling, the density of the language, or something else? As you progressed through Old English texts to Middle English to Modern English, how did your understanding of the literature change? Can you explain what caused the change?