Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.To have lived a free life in London in the sixteenth century would have meant for a woman who was poet and playwright a nervous stress and dilemma which might well have killed her. Had she survived, whatever she had written would have been twisted and deformed, issuing from a strained and morbid imagination.
Answer
A
The negative connotations of the words emphasize the author’s feeling that societal norms damage women artists in severe and lasting ways.
B
The negative connotations of the words emphasize the unreasonable extent to which women artists are challenged by the demands of the creative process.
C
The positive connotations of the words emphasize the author’s insistence that facing great challenges helps women enhance their creativity.
D
The positive connotations of the words emphasize the author’s belief that women artists are strong enough to overcome tremendous hardships.
Explanation
Words such as “nervous stress,” “killed,” “twisted,” “deformed,” and “morbid” have strongly negative connotations. They suggest that a woman artist in the sixteenth century would be harmed by restrictive social conditions, and that this harm would damage her creative work. Choice A captures that severe and lasting effect; the passage is not praising hardship as a source of creativity.
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