ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings:
A
indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.
B
suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.
C
is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.
D
implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The social changes associated with modernity thus made possible the formation of new social networks and political identities, for example, the rise of “voluntary associations” (which stood in contrast to those traditional associations into which one was born and that one took largely for granted).

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of social change in American society include the civil rights movement, LGBTQ rights, feminism and environmentalism.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three traditional ideas of social change-decline, cyclic change, and progress-have unquestionably influenced modern theories.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Marx, social change occurs as a sequel to class struggle. The seeds of class struggle which generate change are found in the economic infra-structure of society.

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