一道老GRE的阅读题，《弗兰肯斯坦》跟《呼啸山庄》

Lyndonyang · 发表于 2013-8-23 10:15:30

Notable as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a “masculine” text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative, portraying a world where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative technique.
17. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) defend a controversial interpretation of two novels
(B) explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels
(C) delineate broad differences between two novels
(D) compare and contrast two novels
(E) criticize and evaluate two novels
这道题的答案是E 对两本小说做出批评与评价；而我选的是D，比较与对比两本小说。求解答。compare 是比较相似，而contrast是比较两者的不同。那正好符号这篇文章的逻辑结构啊，为啥不选呢？好郁闷滴。求解答。

headmaster · 发表于 2013-8-30 14:00:16

D跟E的唯一区别就是：E的criticize and evaluate更准确。因为针对文学作品的分析我们是说“文学批评”，即criticize。而compare and contrast这是一般性的对比和比较。

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