C. Character Development, would be my best answer out of the choices you've stated.
I’m not exactly 100% sure, but I’m at least 99.98% sure it’s
1- C)
2- D)
I hope this helps!
I feel like agree with (B) much more because in the question it states that the quote has to show the "cultural complexity" of the genre meaning that its not as static as it was before as mentioned in question A. , but how it evolved over-time thus becoming more complex : branching out into different ideas of race and class .
In Thomas Hardy's Return of the Natives
The paragraph that best develops Henry's character is when the narrator locate them on the way to Washington, describing him as:
<u>He had grown to regard himself merely as a part of a vast blue
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<u>demonstration. His province was to look out, as far as he could, for his
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<u>personal comfort. For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and
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<u>speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals.
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<u>Also, he was drilled and drilled and reviewed, and drilled and drilled and
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<u>reviewed.</u>