(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):
consolation and hope of a better, but unchanging future.
a full description of the main characters’ motivations.
pairings of contrasting concepts that reflect duality.
a combination of tension, action and violence.
Gabarito:
pairings of contrasting concepts that reflect duality.
a) Alternativa incorreta. O texto II se mostra desesperançoso, demonstrando o poder das autoridades como inescapável.
b) Alternativa incorreta. O texto II não possui uma descrição das motivações do personagem.
c) Alternativa correta. Enquanto o texto II traz as dualidades pelas quais o ser humano já passou em sua história, o texto III mostra a dualidade entre a aparência e os valores do personagem.
d) Alternativa incorreta. Os textos não apresentam ação, tensão ou violência.