Read this excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf:

[a]ny 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.

why did woolf most likely include this passage in the essay?

a. to use a historical period to the reader track her argument more easily
b. to add an emotional element that evokes sympathy on the part of the reader
c. to add a magical feeling that makes her essay more interesting and fun
d. to establish her credibility as an expert on supernatural phenomena

The answer is B: To add an emotional element that evokes sympathy on the part of the reader.

The great 20th century writer, Virginia Woolf, in this famous essay explores her role as a writer and a woman exposing in many ways the difficulties that a learned woman had to face, not only in her own time, but historically, in order to be able to develop her trade or art form in a patriarchal society. The fragment aims at inspiring sympathy in the reader, regardless of the latter´s gender, in order to draw attention to the inequalities that women had, and still have to, face every day.

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