Mary Shelley's Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
Correct answer: B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
- A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
- B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
- C. The poet as special interpreter of the world
- D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world
Explanation
Frankenstein presents scientific ambition as dangerous when it seeks to control life without accepting moral responsibility. Nature, subjectivity, and the isolated creator are also Romantic concerns, but the limits of scientific control form the novel’s central warning.
Last updated
Practise The Novel
360 free The Novel MCQs from English Literature, each with the correct answer and an explanation. Unlimited attempts, no account needed.
Exams that ask English Literature questions like this
English Literature is on 2 papers prepared for on TestUstad, and all of them draw the same bank, so this question is worth knowing for every one of them.
Related questions
A picaresque novel dramatizes the life of what kind of person ?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man thematizes which of the following ?
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?
Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________?
According to Dr. Frances Pritchett's version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's "The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative", which of the following offers the best definition of a "history" ?