Which of these helps you understand an interpretive essay on a poem?Which passage provides the best textual evidence for the argument that Victor Frankenstein could be categorized as a Romantic hero because of his inability to accept society's boundaries?
A.
"As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid. My ardour was indeed the astonishment of the students, and my proficiency that of the masters." (Shelley 49)
B.
"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." (Shelley 47)
C.
"Sometimes I entreated my attendants to assist me in the destruction of the fiend by whom I was tormented; and at others I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror."(Shelley 169)
