Answer:
"Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! "
Explanation:
Death and illness is a natural part of life and part of the nature of human beings. When the narrator of the text shown above states that he wants to fight disease and eliminate the natural death of human life, he is showing that he wants to fight against nature. This shows a type of conflict very common in literature, the conflict "character versus nature", where the human being in the face of his limitations seeks ways to defeat natural things and make them not be a problem in his life.
B for the first question and C for the second
A noun? I'm not quite sure on this one.
