Daily SAT Question 6/17

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Answer to the last one was D lol.

In a literature seminar, a student argues that some critics discuss Mary Shelley primarily as a cultural emblem—an author whose name stands for broad fears about scientific ambition—rather than examining the specific choices she made as a novelist.

Which quotation from a literary critic would best illustrate the student’s claim?

A) “Frankenstein is now invoked chiefly as an emblem of modern unease about scientific power, cited in cultural debates more often than read closely for its narrative design.”

B) “To understand Shelley’s achievement, critics must attend to her sentence-by-sentence modulation of sympathy, since the novel’s ethical force depends on those deliberate stylistic choices.”

C) “Shelley’s narrative innovations can be summarized quickly; it is chiefly as an emblem of modern unease about scientific power that she continues to command critical attention.”

D) “Shelley is often treated as a symbol in discussions of science and ethics, but serious criticism also examines how her layered narration shapes those discussions.”

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