In my opinion, the correct answer is A. unhealthy family relations. Even though the Usher siblings might be mentally ill, we don't see that from this excerpt, just like there are no hints at supernatural beings or weak women characters. We just see the eerie bonds that have connected all members of the family, along with the house as a "creature" of its own.
The correct answer is indeed C) the outbreak of the plague. Actors were forced to resume their travels because of the plage since the authorities had closed the theaters were they used to perform, due to this they didn't have a way to make a living, so they return to their caravans as he used to do before in order to survive and keep on having a job.
The other options are entirely incorrect because A) The population was quite big in London so that could not be a reason to leave. B) Popularity was never mentioned as part of this excerpt, D) There was never mention a ban against them in Stratford upon Avon.
Answer:
Walton’s letters to his sister form a frame around the main narrative, Victor Frankenstein’s tragic story. Walton captains a North Pole–bound ship that gets trapped between sheets of ice. While waiting for the ice to thaw, he and his crew pick up Victor, weak and emaciated from his long chase after the monster. Victor recovers somewhat, tells Walton the story of his life, and then dies. Walton laments the death of a man with whom he felt a strong, meaningful friendship beginning to form.
Walton functions as the conduit through which the reader hears the story of Victor and his monster. However, he also plays a role that parallels Victor’s in many ways. Like Victor, Walton is an explorer, chasing after that “country of eternal light”—unpossessed knowledge. Victor’s influence on him is paradoxical: one moment he exhorts Walton’s almost-mutinous men to stay the path courageously, regardless of danger; the next, he serves as an abject example of the dangers of heedless scientific ambition. In his ultimate decision to terminate his treacherous pursuit, Walton serves as a foil (someone whose traits or actions contrast with, and thereby highlight, those of another character) to Victor, either not obsessive enough to risk almost-certain death or not courageous enough to allow his passion to drive him.
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