Irony is a figure of speech in which words convey the opposite of their literal meaning or a situation is contradictory to what one would expect. So the answer would be C.
I think its the first and the third
<span> don't think either are desirable alone or if the question is to an extreme where if one were extremely beautiful, they would also be extremely idiotic, or extremely smart but extremely ugly. </span><span>Smart is also a very broad adjective. People can have collective knowledge of just about anything. If I choose beauty, would I lack common sense or rationality? or would I just learn at a slower rate? If I choose smarts, would I just contain information without the understanding or ability to use and apply it? Knowledge without wisdom and understanding is useless.</span>
The narrator is someone outside of the story.
I think this is the right answer
c. explore the negative sie of imperialism