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. How do the connotations of the underlined words emphasize the author’s point of view?
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 positive connotations of the words emphasize the author’s insistence that facing great challenges helps women enhance their creativity.
C
The positive connotations of the words emphasize the author’s belief that women artists are strong enough to overcome tremendous hardships.
D
The negative connotations of the words emphasize the unreasonable extent to which women artists are challenged by the demands of the creative process.
Explanation
Words such as “nervous stress,” “killed,” “twisted,” “deformed,” and “morbid” carry strongly negative connotations. They suggest that restrictive social conditions could cause severe, lasting harm to women artists and distort their work. This matches the choice about societal norms damaging women artists.
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