Question

I was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately introduced; which made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer . . . . As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerate among us, within these hundred years past . . . . Who or what is the antagonist of the character vs. self conflict in the passages above? the narrator the empire’s corruption “the force of luxury so lately introduced” the narrator’s feelings about the degenerate human race

Answer 1

The narrators feelings about the degenerate humans.

Answer 2

Answer: D) the narrator’s feelings about the degenerate human race.

Step-by-step explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). In the given excerpt we can see an example of an internal conflict (character vs. self) where the antagonist is the narrator's feelings about the degenerate human race ("it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerate among us").