Question

Which sentence from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe best illustrates the concepts

found in the Great Chain of Being?


A. [M]y inclination to pursue my sea adventures) led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends (2).

B. [W]ind began to blow, and the waves to rise, in a most frightful manner; and as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body, and terrified in mind (5-6).

C. [i]t was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here [leave for the sea again); for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of
a gentleman (13).

D. "Young man," says he, "you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man" (11)..

Answer 1

A.

[My] Inclination to pursue my sea adventures) led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends (2).

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