Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

our utmost endeavors cannot arrive at so much as to imitate the nest of the least of birds, its contexture, beauty, and convenience: not so much as the web of a poor spider.

all things, says plato, are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last.

montiagne’s statement can best be paraphrased as

1.humans should stop trying to control animals because they always destroy them.
2.the nests of birds and the webs of spiders are imperfect, but lovely.
3.nature creates more superior things than human ability can.
4.those things that nature creates are always useful, especially birds’ nests and spider webs.

3.Nature creates more superior things than human ability can.

The argument presented in the passage is that nature can create things that are far better than the things that human ability can create. As much as we try, we cannot recreate the perfection of a bird's nest or a spider's web. The passage also states that the greatest and most beautiful things are the product of nature and fortune, while the products of art are the most imperfect ones.

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

explanation:

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