Society as Allegory for the Individual in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolfs Novels: Critical Reflections on the Individual and on Society
18. In the first paragraph of the passage, the authors attitude toward the literary critics mentioned can best be described as
disparaging
ironic
facetious
skeptical but resigned
disappointed but hopeful
19. It can be inferred from the passage that Woolf chose Chaucer as a literary model because she believed that
Chaucer was the first English author to focus on society as a whole as well as on individual characters
Chaucer was an honest and forthright author, whereas novelists like D, H, Lawrence did not sincerely wish to change society
Chaucer was more concerned with understanding his society than with calling its accepted mores into question
Chaucers writing was greatly, if subtly, effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers
her own novels would be more widely read if, like Chaucer, she did not overtly and vehemently criticize contemporary society
20. It can be inferred from the passage that the most probable reason Woolf realistically described the social setting in the majority of her novels was that she
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