(AFA - 2023)Directions: Read Text III and answer q

(AFA - 2023)

 

Directions: Read Text III and answer question 04 and 05 accordingly.

TEXT II

 

	It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it
	was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it
	was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it
	was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it
5	was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we
	had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we
	were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going the
	other way – in short, the period was so far like the present
	period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
10	being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative
	degree of comparison only.

(DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Penguin Books, 1994.)

 

TEXT III

	Franval who lived in Paris, where he was born,
	possessed, along with an income of 400,000 livres, the
	finest figure, the most pleasant face and the most varied
	talents; but beneath this attractive exterior lay hidden
5	every vice, and unfortunately those of which the adoption
	and habitual indulgence lead so rapidly to crime. An
	imagination more unbridled than anything one can depict
	was Franval’s prime defect; men of this kind do not mend
	their ways, the decline of power makes them worse; the
10	less they do, the more they undertake; the less they
	achieve, the more they invent; each age brings new ideas,
	and satiety, far from cooling their ardour, only prepares
	the way for more fatal refinements.

(SADE, Marquis de. The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade. 2000.)

 

A similarity between Text II and Text III can be found in the following aspect(s):