Read the following passage carefully before choosing your answer.
The retired magistrate, Sir John, spent his afternoons pacing the windswept terrace of Blackfriars, a crumbling estate perched on the cliffs of Devon. As the autumn gales began to howl, stripping the oaks of their final leaves, he refused to retreat indoors, ignoring his daughter’s anxious calls from the parlor window. He stood facing the sea, his white hair whipped wild by the spray, shouting indictments into the gale. "Pour on, you impartial waters!" he cried. "You have no favorite sons, no younger brothers to disinherit. You judge the peer and the pauper with the same cold indifference!" Watching from the threshold, his steward, Caleb, felt a chill that owed nothing to the wind; he saw that Sir John was no longer merely a retired judge disputing his pension, but a ruined king reclaiming a desolate crown in the middle of a self-inflicted tempest.
Which of the following best describes the primary function of the structural and thematic parallel established between Sir John’s confrontation with the storm and the heath scenes in Shakespeare’s *King Lear*?
- Aforeshadow a literal plot replication in which Sir John’s daughter will soon strip him of his remaining wealth and exile him
- Bsummarize the chronological sequence of Sir John’s physical actions as he braves the autumn gale
- elevate Sir John’s domestic conflict and mental decline to the scale of universal, tragic sufferingCevap
- Dexpress the author’s personal condemnation of the legal and moral corruption inherent in nineteenth-century inheritance laws
- Eidentify the natural elements as personified forces without connecting them to Sir John’s internal psychological state