Which lines from the passage would best support a reader’s claim that one of the central themes of the passage is independence?
Responses
“Without his imagination, which was rampant under the spur of loneliness, he would have succumbed long ago” (paragraph 1)
“Without his imagination, which was rampant under the spur of loneliness, he would have succumbed long ago” (paragraph 1)
“Such few pleasures as he could contrive for himself gained an added relish from the likelihood that they would be displeasing to his guardian, and from the realm of his imagination she was locked out—an unclean thing, which should find no entrance” (paragraph 2)
“Such few pleasures as he could contrive for himself gained an added relish from the likelihood that they would be displeasing to his guardian, and from the realm of his imagination she was locked out—an unclean thing, which should find no entrance” (paragraph 2)
“In the dull, cheerless garden, overlooked by so many windows that were ready to open with a message not to do this or that, or a reminder that medicines were due, he found little attraction” (paragraph 3)
“In the dull, cheerless garden, overlooked by so many windows that were ready to open with a message not to do this or that, or a reminder that medicines were due, he found little attraction” (paragraph 3)
“He had peopled it with a legion of familiar phantoms, evoked partly from fragments of history and partly from his own brain, but it also boasted two inmates of flesh and blood” (paragraph 3)
“He had peopled it with a legion of familiar phantoms, evoked partly from fragments of history and partly from his own brain, but it also boasted two inmates of flesh and blood” (paragraph 3)
“Its very presence in the tool-shed was a secret and fearful joy, to be kept scrupulously from the knowledge of the Woman, as he privately dubbed his cousin” (paragraph 3)
