Passage from a room of one’s own: this may be true or it may be false—who can say? —but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of shakespeare's sister as i had made it, is that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. for it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty. how does woolf use language to emphasize the idea that brilliant women were often feared in the 16th century? a) she describes these women as psychologically tortured. b) she describes these women as “pulled asunder.” c) she describes these women as lonely and isolated. d) she describes these women as “half witch, half wizard.”