Why is the ability to debate still important today?

When grendel speaks of unferth and says "i could crush him like a fly" what literary device is being used

Who else did the prussian soldiers interact with other characters?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.