ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
P.B. Shelley’s pamphlet ‘the necessity of atheism’ is about the fact that we cannot prove that God exists.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Bysshe Shelley, The necessity of atheism (Worthing, [1811]). This small tract is a very rare survival of one of the two pamphlets which were published by Percy Bysshe Shelley during his brief career (six months) at University College, Oxford.

Detailed explanation-2: –Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley made a number of claims in Necessity, including that one’s beliefs are involuntary, and, therefore, that atheists do not choose to be so and should not be persecuted.

Detailed explanation-3: -The hotel was the Hotel de Villes de Londres and the page in question was the one upon which Percy Bysshe Shelley had inscribed his famous declaration that he was an atheist, a lover of humanity and a democrat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Percy Shelley believed that equality was the natural state. He was ahead of his time. And yet, in the twenty-first century we still labour in an unequal, class society, and we still live with racism, exploitation and sexism.

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