Which quotation best illustrates the idea that the narrator sacrificed a great deal for his work?
a. “with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, i collected the instruments of life around me that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.” (paragraph 1)
b. “it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…” (paragraph 1)
c. “his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful.” (paragraph 2)
d. “i had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. for this i had deprived myself of rest and health.” (paragraph 3)