CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

THE HAPPY PRINCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the main message behind the story?
A
To only care about beauty.
B
To love something blindly.
C
To never be selfless.
D
A social critic.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in particular with respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social critics help change communities Social criticism can aid in the work of community development by helping to identify the root causes of social inequality and injustice. This understanding can then inform the development of community-based solutions that address these issues and promote greater equity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sociological criticism focuses on the relationship between literature and society, the social function of literature. Literature is always produced in a social context. Writers may affirm or criticize the values of the society in which they live, but they write for an audience and that audience is society.

Detailed explanation-4: -Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution.

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