Question

Excerpt from The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.


In this sentence from the passage, why is the word Nature capitalized?


A)
It helps indicate the personification of nature.


B)
It shows the importance of nature in this passage.


C)
It reveals the symbolic quality of nature in the story.


D)
It is consistent with the 19th century style of writing.

Answer 1

A it helps indicate personification of nature

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A) It helps indicate the personification of nature.

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification refers to the act of giving human qualities to non-human concepts, objects or ideas. In this case, it is "nature" that is personified. We know that the author has given nature human qualities because he talks about "the hand of Nature." Moreover, the author indicates it through the use of a capital letter at the beginning of the word "Nature."