<span> D) Men in this culture are more skeptical than women.</span>
Answer:
Dante was the first writer to depict human beings as the products of a specific time, place and circumstance as opposed to mythic archetypes or a collection of vices and virtues; this along with the fully imagined world of the Divine Comedy, different from our own but fully visualized, suggests that the Divine Comedy could be said to have inaugurated realism and self-portraiture in modern fiction.
Guy de Maupassant's work are deemed naturalistic because his characters are usually the working class and they are often portrayed in a very harsh conditions of real life where misery is prevalent.
Majority of his themes are about war and German occupation. His stories focus more on women, especially those who are victims and prostitutes. A lot of his stories also focus of depression, paranoia, and madness usually resulting to death and destruction.
A prominent theme in Rowlandson's narrative (and Puritan writing in
general) is the sense of fear and revulsion she expresses in regards to
the wilderness. When taken captive after the attack on Lancaster,
Rowlandson was forced to face a threatening environment and endure the
treatment of her Native American captors, people whom she refers to as
"barbarous creatures," "murderous wretches" "heathen," "ravenous
beasts," and "hell-hounds."
