The correct answer is A. <span>"But in her web she still delights / To weave the mirror's magic sights." The confined Lady of Shalott mustn't directly look into the world outside. She can only do it through the magic mirror, and she has an irresistible need to weave what she sees in the mirror into her magic web - a genuinely artistic need to interpret the outside world, to endow it with meaning, to understand it, to relive it. In her situation, paradoxically, art is her only contact with the world because she is forbidden to walk outside or even take a direct look through the window.</span>
