Question

Read this line from Frankenstein: And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning. . .

An adept is one who is an expert at something. Why does the author use the word unadept in this line?
To show frustration
To show confidence
To show fear
To show expertise

Answer 1

Well it could show expertise, or, at least, the lack of it. But I bet its to show frustration.

Answer 2

To show frustration

Step-by-step explanation:

As it is stated, adept is a person that is skilled at something, therefore when that person is doing a task, he feels confident. He knows exactly what to do in order to be successful. In this case, the narrator wants to express that he had so many things to think about and calculate that he was not confident, he couldn't achieve his goal and he got frustrated. By using the prefix un-, which means not, he shows us that he felt not prepared enough to succeed. This prefix is used to give opposite and negative meaning to the words.