Câu 21: TEAS Section 1 Reading Comprehension: Test of Essential Academic Skills - Reading Comprehension

The main purpose of this story is to appeal to the readers interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and deadbut which has never been, and can never be, exhausted, because it is a subject eternally interesting to all mankind. Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known. It has been my aim to make the character of "Magdalen," which personifies this struggle, a pathetic character even in its perversity and its error; and I have tried hard to attain this result by the least obtrusive and the least artificial of all meansby a resolute adherence throughout to the truth as it is in Nature. This design was no easy one to accomplish; and it has been a great encouragement to me (during the publication of my story in its periodical form) to know, on the authority of many readers, that the object which I had proposed to myself, I might, in some degree, consider as an object achieved. Round the central figure in the narrative other characters will be found grouped, in sharp contrastcontrast, for the most part, in which I have endeavored to make the element of humor mainly predominant. I have sought to impart this relief to the more serious passages in the book, not only because I believe myself to be justified in doing so by the laws of Artbut because experience has taught me (what the experience of my readers will doubtless confirm) that there is no such moral phenomenon as unmixed tragedy to be found in the world around us. Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life. Why does the author believe he is justified in using humor in the work being referenced?

1. A. only because it is his artistic freedom to do so
2. B. because this art must represent life and life is humorous
3. C. because there are no pure lines between Good and Evil or humor and tragedy — đáp án hiện tại
4. D. because the human characteristics of Magdalen have to show both sides of humanity to be truly representative and accepted as realistic by the reader
5. E. just to show that he can master both the serious and humorous aspects of writing and to do so in a singular work is commendable