Which statement best shows how the poem "The Man with the Hoe” and the painting Man with a Hoe use an archetype to express a theme?

The poem and the painting both portray a poor, exhausted peasant whose life has been shaped by hard labor. Markham’s poem asks whether generations of workers have been exploited and diminished by those who benefit from their work, and Millet’s figure similarly suggests the burden borne by laborers. Together, they use the peasant archetype to express that workers have been taken advantage of for their labor.

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