What is the significance of the dreamer in The Dream of the Rood ?
Correct answer: B. The dreamer has a special hope for salvation.
- A. The dreamer functions as an example of the comitatus ethic.
- B. The dreamer has a special hope for salvation.
- C. The dreamer is a relic from before the Christian conversion.
- D. The dreamer is an example of the superstition of paganism.
Explanation
The dreamer’s response to the vision shows a personal longing for salvation and for union with Christ. The dream therefore connects the poem’s Christian message to the individual believer’s hope.
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