Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Elizabethan people suffer from some afflictions that no
longer exist in modern England. Plague is the obvious example but it is by no means the only one. Sweating sickness kills tens of thousands of people on its first appearance in 1485 and periodically thereafter. It is a terrifying disease because sufferers die within hours. It doesn’t return after a particularly bad outbreak in 1556 but people do not know whether it has gone for good; they still fear it, and it continues to be part of the medical landscape for many years. How does the paragraph develop the central idea that Elizabethans suffered from diseases that are unfamiliar to modern readers?
The author uses the line 'people suffer from afflictions that no longer exist in modern England'.
Explanation:
They develop the central idea by using the plague as an example of an unfamilar disease to modern man and then explained sweating sickness and why it was so scary (sufferers die within hours) and they don't know if or when it will return.
