A. it enables Stephen to say in Ireland forever
B. it prepares Stephen to accept his artistic rebirth
C. it ends Stephen’s period of enlightenment
D. it helps Stephen to decide to join the Catholic church
Related Mcqs:
- One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
B. To entertain those who enjoy it
C. To criticize society through satire
D. All of the above answers are correct. - According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
B. To entertain those who enjoy it
C. To criticize society through satire
D. To bring to light social oppressions - To justify which purpose that Milton wrote Paradise Lost ?
A. To justify the fall of Lucifer
B. To justify the loss of paradise
C. To justify the fall of man
D. To justify the ways of God to men - What is Milton’s stated purpose in Paradise Lost ?
A. To assert his superiority to other poets
B. To argue against the doctrine of predestination
C. To justify the ways of God to men
D. To make his story hard to understand - What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact ?
A. Establish a new government
B. first agreement on self governing
C. Religious freedom
D. Sovereignty - The purpose of placing ‘fallen cold and dead’ at the end of each section is to_____________?
A. remind the leader of the tragedy
B. repeat the lines for the rhyming
C. keep the readers aware of what is to come
D. clarify his idea - One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose ?
A. Billy Budd
B. Hamlet
C. Captain Ahab
D. Ophelia - What literary purpose does Emily’s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
A. Emily is confronted with the duality of the human mind, at once rational and then mad.
B. Emily is tested regarding the guilt and ghosts of sins past.
C. Emily comes to understand the benefits of a cloistered life.
D. Emily learns the story of Sister Agnes’s past.
