ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

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I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. ____ I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!”
A
Fredrick Douglass
B
John Winthrop
C
Benjamin Franklin
D
William Apess
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -#1 “If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

Detailed explanation-2: -Douglass was signed to work for Mr. Covey for one year. His first six months were atrocious, harsh, and unmanageable. His spirits weakened which included a decline in his desire to read and even to survive.

Detailed explanation-3: -Douglass thinks that because Covey enjoyed a widespread reputation for being the region’s best slave breaker, it provided him with plenty of free labor, and he didn’t want to punish Douglass any further because doing so would be an admission of his having lost a physical fight.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Chapter X we see Douglass working for wages for the first time. Previously, his labor translated into invisible profit for his masters, but when he begins apprenticing at shipyards, he begins to receive the monetary value of his labor. Douglass must turn over these wages to Hugh Auld each week, however.

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