ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Under what conditions was your work published and why?
A
Without her name and with her husband’s foreword, because at that time one could not believe that a woman could write so well
B
Without his name and without giving him any payment because they were already rich
C
Without her name and with her husband’s prologue because she was embarrassed because she was very young
D
Without his name because there were no rights
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The writer decided to focus on the question of married women’s identity because she wanted them to live with their own identity and self-respect. She did not want them to confine to their homes. She wanted them to be given equal rights, equal respect.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Feminine Mystique begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called “the problem that has no name"-the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Detailed explanation-3: -French writer and social reformer Olympe de Gouges crafted the 1791 “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen” in response to the 1789 “Declaration of the Rights of Man” because she wanted to assert women’s rights as well as men’s.

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