Notable' as important
nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Emily
Bronte's Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced
a "masculine" text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem
entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced
a more realistic narrative portraying a world where men battle for the favors of
apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are
alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling
mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce,
though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions,
though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much
controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic
disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic
tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed
authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative
technique.
单选题
The primary purpose of the passage is to ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
According to the passage, Frankenstein differs from Wuthering Heights in its ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】
单选题
Which of the following narrative strategies best exemplifies the "evidentiary narrative technique" mentioned in the last line?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
According to the passage, the plot of Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein are notable for their elements of ______.