Question

[A]ny woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century

would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended
her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half
witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little
skill in psychology to be sure that a happily gifted girl who
had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so
thwarted and hindered by other people.
Which statement best states the idea that this excerpt helps to develop?
O A. Historians have glossed over women's achievements.
O B. Society has held women back from greatness.
C. Men have conspired to keep women powerless.
D. Emotions have prevented women from success.

Answer 1

I definitely think B.
The deeper meaning here is that women were not allowed to do great things, and if there were to be a women that wanted to be educated it was highly frowned upon.

Answer 2

Hey There!! The answer to this is B: To add an emotional element that evokes sympathy on the part of the reader.

The great 20th century writer, Virginia Woolf, in this famous essay explores her role as a writer and a woman exposing in many ways the difficulties that a learned woman had to face, not only in her own time, but historically, in order to be able to develop her trade or art form in a patriarchal society. The fragment aims at inspiring sympathy in the reader, regardless of the latter´s gender, in order to draw attention to the inequalities that women had, and still have to, face every day.

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