Read the following passage from Jonathan Swift’s 1732 poem “The…

Question Answered step-by-step Read the following passage from Jonathan Swift’s 1732 poem “The…  Read the following passage from Jonathan Swift’s 1732 poem “The Lady’s Dressing Room”:Five hours, (and who can do it less in?)By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber issues, Arrayed in lace, brocades and tissues.      Strephon, who found the room was void, And Betty otherwise employed, Stole in, and took a strict survey, Of all the litter as it lay; . . . The basin takes whatever comesThe scrapings of her teeth and gums, A nasty compound of all hues, For here she spits, and here she spews. But oh! it turned poor Strephon’s bowels, When he beheld and smelled the towels, Begummed, bemattered, and beslimedWith dirt, and sweat, and earwax grimed. No object Strephon’s eye escapes, Here petticoats in frowzy heaps; Nor be the handkerchiefs forgotAll varnished o’er with snuff and snot.Describe Swift’s point of view of women in the passage. Then explain how he uses sarcasm, satire, or irony to convey that point of view. Support your ideas with specific details from the passage. Read the following passage from Virginia Woolf’s 1929 extended essay, A Room of One’s Own:[I]t would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. Shakespeare himself went, very probably . . . to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin . . . and the elements of grammar and logic. . . . Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practising his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen. Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister . . . was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. . . . She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. . . . [B]efore she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighbouring woolstapler. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father. . . . She made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer’s night and took the road to London. . . . She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. . . . [A]t last Nick Greene the actor-manager took pity on her; she found herself with child by that gentleman and so — who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body? — killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle. According to Woolf, why were there no “female Shakespeares” in Shakespeare’s time? In your own words, state the point, or idea, about women that Woolf makes in the passage. Then analyze how Woolf develops that idea in the passage. Be sure to use specific details from the passage to support your ideas.Read the following passage from A Visit to Europe by T. N. Mukharji, an Indian civil servant who came to London in 1886 to work in the Indian and Colonial Exposition. In the passage, Mukharji describes an encounter with a British family.Once, I was sitting in one of the swellish restaurants at the Exhibition, glancing over a newspaper. . . . At a neighbouring table sat a respectable-looking family group evidently from the country, from which furtive glances were occasionally thrown in my direction. I thought I might do worse than having a little fun, if any could be made out of the notice that was being taken of me. . . . Perhaps, no symptom being visible in my external appearance of the cannibalistic tendencies of my heart, or owing probably to the notion that I must have by that time got over my partiality for human flesh, or knowing at least that the place was safe enough against any treacherous spring which I might take into my head to make upon them . . . the party . . . tried to attract my attention towards them. The latter duty ultimately devolved upon the beauty of the party, a pretty girl of about seventeen. . . . I heard her say— “Oh, how I wish to speak to him?” Could I withstand such an appeal? I rose and . . . asked— “Did you speak to me, young lady?” . . . The young lady soon got over her bashfulness, . . . expressed her astonishment at my knowledge of English, and complimented me for the performance of the band brought from my country, viz., the West Indian band composed of Negroes and Mulattos, which compliment made me wince a little, but nevertheless I went on chattering for a quarter of an hour.What is the main purpose of this passage? Write a short argument to answer the question. Develop your ideas by analyzing specific details from the passage. Also be careful to include a clear claim and to respond to at least one counterclaim.   Arts & Humanities Writing Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)