Question

how does the author of passage 2 develop universal themes about identity and social mobility?

• by highlighting pickering’s support during an upscale event
• by showing nepommuck’s tendency to question people’s accomplishments
• by depicting higgins’s fixation on recording and studying the accents of people
• by exploring eliza’s success at copying the manners and speech of the upper class

Explanation:

This question refers to George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (the source of Passage 2). Eliza's journey of mastering upper-class speech and manners directly explores how adopting elite social codes changes her sense of self (identity) and allows her to move across social classes (social mobility). The other options focus on secondary characters' actions that do not center on the core universal themes of identity and social mobility as Eliza's arc does.

Answer:

D. by exploring Eliza's success at copying the manners and speech of the upper class