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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: their fangs, and hissed; and Medusa, as she tossed, threw
back her wings and showed her brazen claws; and Perseus saw
that, for all her beauty, she was as foul and venomous as the
rest.
Then he came down and stepped to her boldly, and looked
steadfastly on his mirror, and struck with Herpe stoutly
once; and he did not need to strike again.
Then he wrapped the head in the goat-skin, turning away his
eyes, and sprang into the air aloft, faster than he ever
sprang before.
For Medusa's wings and talons rattled as she sank dead upon
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