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Read these lines: "I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling." What is the main point of the quoted lines?
AWriting letters has cured his loneliness
BHe has quarrelled with an old companion
CHe would rather work alone than with others
DWriting cannot replace the company he lacks
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Writing cannot replace the company he lacks
1. 1. He states the lack first: he has no friend.
2. 2. He then shows what the lack costs him in both success and disappointment.
3. 3. He offers writing as the one substitute available to him.
4. 4. He immediately calls it a poor medium for the communication of feeling, so the substitute fails.
5. 5. That is the point of the whole set of lines, so option A is right, and calling the loneliness cured reverses it.
_Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)_
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