I would say A but D could also be said softly
The instances of situational irony that occur in the above passage are:
The aunt expects the boy to accept her explanations, but he does not.
The aunt expects the boy to be interested in the cows, but he is not.
A situational irony is a form of irony in which the actions have an opposite effect of what it is intended. The outcome of the situation is totally different to what it is expected. In the above excerpt, the answers which the boy gets from his Aunt and the way he deals with those answers are an example of situational irony.
B. Recent scientific breakthroughs inspire Frankenstein to study the
nature of life.
Explanation:
Much like the Romantics who were pushed by the recent developments in Science to look for their source of life in nature and spirituality, Frankenstein takes a scientific route to understand life.
T<u>he story is indeed a response to Industrial individualism and Man's will to overpower nature and the pow</u>ers <u>that nature wields over humans. </u>It is a parable to show what happens when humans try to take up the most elemental of the jobs of nature: to give life.
